Debates on religion and politics have, to a high degree, focused on contrasts between Europe and other parts of the world; the long-established assumption that modern societies are on a secularising path seemed have a stronger claim to validity in Europe than elsewhere. This book shows that, if European modernity does represent an exit from religion, this historical process and its implications are still very imperfectly understood.

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction - Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
• 2 The Religio-political Nexus: Historical and Comparative Reflections - Johann P. Arnason
• 3 Politics and Religion in a Global Age - Jeffrey Haynes
• 4 Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity - Linell E. Cady and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
• 5 Europe in the Global Rise of Religious Nationalism - Mark Juergensmeyer
• 6 The European Union's Civil Religion in the Making? - Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
• 7 Democracy, Secularism and Islam in Turkey - Ayhan Kaya
• 8 Orthodox Religion and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia - Mikhail Maslovskiy and Nikita Shangin
• 9 Religion and Politics, Church and State in Chinese History - John Lagerwey
• 10 Religion and the State in Contemporary Japan - Elisabetta Porcu
• 11 Arab Revolutions and Political Islam: A Structural Approach - Karel Černý
• 12 Beyond Post-secularism: Religion in Political Analysis (Review Article) - Michal Matlak
• Notes on the Contributors