Religion and National Identities in an Enlarged Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Religion, Nationalism, and European Integration: Introduction

   • Matthias Koenig, Wolfgang Knöbl

   Pages 1-16

3. The (Fragile) Normalization of German Identity Within Europe

   • Willfried Spohn

   Pages 17-38

4. Changing Frameworks of National Identity in Post-communist Poland

   • Mikołaj Lewicki, Sławomir Mandes

   Pages 39-67

5. Greek Identity and Europe: Entanglements and Tensions

   • Effie Fokas, Evangelos Karagiannis

   Pages 68-95

6. Turkey in Europe, Europe in Turkey: History, Elites, and the Media

   • Levent Soysal, Saime Özçürümez, Çağla Diner

   Pages 96-123

7. Religious Dimensions of National and European Identities: Evidence from Cross-national Survey Research

   • Sabine Trittler, Sławomir Mandes, Matthias Koenig

   Pages 124-145

8. Varieties of Religious Nationalism

   • Matthias Koenig, Wolfgang Knöbl

   Pages 146-162

9. Back Matter

   Pages 163-187

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This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, media debates and public opinions across Europe over a decade, it explores how accelerated European integration and Eastern enlargement have affected religious markers of collective identity.

• Nationalism
• Religion
• European Integration
• Germany
• Greece
• Poland
• Turkey
• Collective Identity
• Europe
• identity
• Integration
• Nation
• national identity
• nationalism
• public opinion
• religion

“This is a book that traces, conceptually, theoretically and empirically, the impact of EU institutions on identity – and more specifically, religious identity. Much of the strength of the book derives from a research design that combines rich analysis of individual case studies with the identification of broad patterns and common themes. … editors have contributed to our understanding of the ways in which EU integration has shaped the development of national – and mainly religious – identity in different member states.” (Daphne Halikiopoulou, Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 9 (1), 2017)

“This book sets out to redress the neglect of religion as an element of collective identities in the study of European integration from 1990–2010. … it makes a valuable contribution to the study of the entanglement of religion with nationalidentities as they are effected by the processes of European integration. Hopefully this will provide a solid foundation for further research in this area, incorporating other cases, engaging with greater varieties of religion and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and debate.” (Liam Sutherland, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 22 (4), October, 2016)

• University of Wroclaw, Poland

  Willfried Spohn

• Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

  Matthias Koenig, Wolfgang Knöbl

Ça?la Diner, Kadir Has University, Turkey Effie Fokas, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece Evangelos Karagiannis, Vienna University, Austria Miko?aj Lewicki, University of Warsaw, Poland S?awomir Mandes, University of Warsaw, Poland Saime Özçürümez, Bilkent University, Turkey Levent Soysal, Kadir Has University, Turkey Sabine Trittler, University of Göttingen, Germany

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