Overview
- Takes a dialogical approach to understand the relationship between citizenship and religion
- Explores the authors' own biographical experience of religion within their own cultural and political society
- Contributes an unseen perspective through personal insight
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Our Struggles with Citizenship, Religion, and Secularism
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Is Religion a Resource or a Barrier for Active Citizenship?
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About this book
This book explores the relationship between religion and citizenship from a culturally diverse group of contributors, in the context of the developing tendency towards fundamentalist and conflicting religious beliefs in European, North African, and Middle Eastern societies.
The chapters provide an alternative narrative of the role of religion, presenting diverse ‘lived shades’ of citizenship, as well as accounting for issues of gender equality, minority rights, violence, identity, education, and secularisation. As the renewed role of religious institutions is increasing in Europe and elsewhere, the contributors interrogate the experience of belonging, public policy, welfare services and religious education, highlighting how cooperation between citizenship and religion is necessary in a democratic regime. The research will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, international relations, and religious studies.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maurice Blanc is Emeritus Professor of Urban Sociology at Strasbourg University, France.
Julia Droeber is Assistant Professor of Islamic Pedagogy at Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany.
Tom Storrie (†) was Principal of Colleges of Further and Higher Education in the UK and Associate Professor of the UNESCO Centre for Human Rights and Development at An-Najah University, Nablus, Palastine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Citizenship and Religion
Book Subtitle: A Fundamental Challenge for Democracy
Editors: Maurice Blanc, Julia Droeber, Tom Storrie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54610-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54609-0Published: 17 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54612-0Published: 18 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54610-6Published: 16 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Educational Policy and Politics, Political Sociology, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime