Overview
- Challenges common assumptions about the religious underpinnings of the European Union’s founding
- Analyzes demographics, law, and history to understand wide divergences in European perspectives towards European integration
- Examines European case studies of religiously-inspired policies and arrangements governing relationships between church and state
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy (PSRPP)
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About this book
This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism. Royce supports this thesis through a rigorously supported historical narrative, arguing that sixteenth-century theological conflicts generated seventeenth-century constitutional solutions, which ultimately effected the political choices both for and against integration during the twentieth century. Beginning with a survey of all ecclesiastical laws of seventeen West European countries and concluding with a full discussion of the Brexit vote and emerging alternatives to the EU, this examination of the political theology surrounding the European Union will appeal to all scholars of EU politics, modern theology, religious sociology, and contemporary European history.
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About the author
Mark R. Royce is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Virginia Community College, USA, where he teaches international relations courses. His research interests include European integration, the British Constitution, and Christian theology, and he has written for The European Legacy, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Theology of European Integration
Book Subtitle: Comparing the Influence of Religious Histories on European Policies
Authors: Mark R. Royce
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53447-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53446-6Published: 11 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85156-3Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53447-3Published: 27 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6769
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6777
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 310
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, European Union Politics, Politics and Religion, Regionalism, Political History, Social Aspects of Religion