Religious Newcomers and the Nation State
Political Culture and Organized Religion in France and the Netherlands
Distributed for Eburon Academic Publishers
Religious Newcomers and the Nation State
Political Culture and Organized Religion in France and the Netherlands
168 pages | 5 7/10 x 8 3/10 | © 2010
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The national ‘domestication’ of religion in Europe
Thijl Sunier
Part 1: origins and importance of political cultures
2. Accommodating difference: Historical processes and political cultures
Wayne te Brake
3. French laïcité, between national conflict and local compromises: For an interactionist approach to the concept of political culture
Bérengère Massignon
4. Dutch way of dealing with religious differences
Peter van Rooden
Part 2: religious minorities in the Dutch and French nation state
5. Dutch and Catholic: The Catholic Church and Dutch Catholics in the Dutch Nation State since 1795
Erik Sengers
6. Protestantism in France: A minority defining its place in Catholic culture
Jean-Paul Willaime
7. Islam in the Netherlands: A nation despite religious communities?
Thijl Sunier
8. The governance of Islam in France: Church-state traditions and colonial legacies
Marcel Maussen
9. Globalization, the nation-state and religious newcomers: Reflections on two countries
James Kennedy
About the authors