Religious Newcomers and the Nation State
Political Culture and Organized Religion in France and the Netherlands

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- 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
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