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- Title
Is Europe an Exceptional Case?
- Authors
Davie, Grace
- Abstract
This essay reports on understanding the place of religion in the twenty-first-century Europe and determining whether Europe is an exceptional case in terms of its patterns of religious life. Three factors are considered including, the legacies of the past, an observable change in the churchgoing constituencies of the continent, and the arrival in Europe of groups of people from many different parts of the world. It concludes that vicarious religion will endure at least until the mid-century, that the presence of Islam is a crucial factor that is ignored at peril, and that the combination of these factors will increase the salience of religion in public and private debate.
- Subjects
EUROPE; RELIGION &; culture; RELIGIOUS life; RELIGION; CHURCH buildings; ISLAM; CULTURAL property; LEGACIES; DEBATE
- Publication
Hedgehog Review, 2006, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p23
- ISSN
1527-9677
- Publication type
Essay