Christendom and European Identity
Title | Christendom and European Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Anne Perkins |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9783110182446 |
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Christendom and European Identity
Title | Christendom and European Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Anne Perkins |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2015-02-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110914611 |
This book critically explores the idea of Europe since the French Revolution from the perspective of intellectual history. It traces the dominant and recurring theme of Europe-as-Christendom in discourse concerning the relationship of religion, politics and society, in historiography and hermeneutics, and in theories and constructions of identity and ‘otherness’. It examines the evolution of a grand narrative by which European elites have sought to define European and national identity. This narrative, the author argues, maintains the existence of common historical and intellectual roots, common values, culture and religion. The book explores its powerful legacy in the positive creation of a sense of European unity, the ways in which it has been exploited for ideological purposes, and its impact on non-Christian communities within Europe.
Is Europe Christian?
Title | Is Europe Christian? PDF eBook |
Author | Olivier Roy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190099933 |
Latest from Olivier Roy offering a brilliant analysis of Europe's ongoing culture wars over identity, immigration and Islam, and what these mean for Christianity. As populism rises and historic identities are hotly contested, the idea of the 'Christian West' is under the spotlight.
Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe
Title | Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783666101496 |
This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. "National identity" is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses of citizenship, narratives of cultural or linguistic belonging, or "national" characteristics. It considers various geographical contexts, and takes into account processes of cross-national exchange and transfer. It shows how national and denominational identities were often mutually constitutive, at times leading to a strongly exclusionary stance against "other" national or religious groups. In different circumstances, religiously minded thinkers critiqued nationalism, emphasising the universalist strains of their faith, with varying degrees of success. Throughout the century church officials and lay Christians have had to come to terms with the relationship between their national and "European" identities within the processes of Europeanisation.
The Rise of Western Christendom
Title | The Rise of Western Christendom PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Brown |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 741 |
Release | 2012-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1118338847 |
This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' Includes a fully updated bibliography and index
The Unconverted Self
Title | The Unconverted Self PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Boyarin |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1459605527 |
"The Unconverted Self proposes that questions of difference inside Christian Europe not only are inseparable from the painful legacy of colonialism but also reveal Christian domination to be a fragile construct. Boyarin compares the Christian efforts aimed toward European Jews and toward indigenous peoples of the New World, bringing into focus the intersection of colonial expansion with the Inquisition and adding significant nuance to the entire question of the colonial encounter."--Publisher description
Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery
Title | Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery PDF eBook |
Author | Ildar H. Garipzanov |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
ISBN | 9782503533674 |
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in question. Most chapters are written by established experts in their fields, who have published critical editions of the discussed narratives, their English translations, or analytical works dealing with early history writing in corresponding regions. However, the volume is more than just a summary of various narratives. Despite being written in such different languages as Latin, Old Norse, and Old Church Slavonic, these narratives played similar roles for their reading audiences, in that they were crucial in the construction of Christian identity in the lands recently converted to Christianity. The thirteen authors contemplate the extent to which this identity formation affected the nature of narrativity in these early historical works. The authors ask how the pagan past and Christian present were incorporated in the texture of the narratives, and address the relative importance of classical and biblical models for their composition and structure. By addressing such questions, the volume offers medievalists a coherent comparative study of early history writing in the peripheral regions of medieval Europe in the first centuries after conversion.