Cultural Borders of Europe

Mats Andrén is Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, where he also previously served as director of the Centre for European Research. His most recent book is Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy: Nihilism and Responsibility (Routledge, 2012).

• List of Figures and TablesIntroductionMats Andrén & Ingmar SöhrmanPART I: THE CHALLENGES OF RELIGIOUS BORDERSChapter 1. Territorial and Religious Identifications in EuropeLinda BergChapter 2. Europe with or without Muslims: Creating and Maintaining Cultural BoundariesGöran Larsson & Riem SpielhausChapter 3. Ilm al-Hududuyya: Un-Inheriting EurocentricityKlas GrinellPART II: LINGUISTIC BORDERS IN PRACTICEChapter 4. When the Intercultural Goes National:  Textbooks as Sites of StruggleKatharina VajtaChapter 5. The Pluricentric Borders of BavariaBarbara LoesterChapter 6. The Influence of Imagined Linguistic PerformancesIngmar SöhrmanPART III: MENTAL SPACES AND BARRIERSChapter 7. Mental Barriers Replacing Nation-State BordersFernand FehlenChapter 8. Crossing Borders and Redefining Oneself: The Treacherous Life of Aino KallasKatarina LeppänenChapter 9. Evolving Symbolic Divides: in Basque Language Promotion LogosJohan JärlehedPART IV: SCHOLARS MAKING BORDERSChapter 10. The Controversial Concept of European IdentityMats AndrénChapter 11. The EU as a ‘Large Space’? Carl Schmitt and the Contemporary Dilemmas of Political Rituals and Cultural BordersJon WittrockChapter 12. How Prehistory Becomes Crucial for Border MakingPer CornellConclusionThomas Lindkvist & Katharina VajtaIndex

“[Published] in the outstanding Berghahn Books 'Making Sense of History' series, [this] seminal work of scholarship throughout, Cultural Borders of Europe is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Contemporary International Studies collections.” • Midwest Book Review“This very rich anthology, with contributions from many strands of the humanities and social sciences, should enrich the field of border(ing) studies that is now in high demand.” • Thomas Lundén, Södertörn University