Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe

Effie Fokas teaches International Relations and European Affairs at the American College of Greece – Deree, is a research associate at the London School of Economics (LSE) Hellenic Observatory, and is a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where she has carried out a number of EU‑funded research projects relevant to religion, politics, and law, including a Marie Curie Fellowship on pluralism and religious freedom in majority Orthodox contexts and a European Research Council (ERC)‑funded project on grassroots mobilisations around European Court of Human Rights religion‑related case law (Grassrootsmobilise, 2014–2019).Alberta Giorgi is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the University of Bergamo, and an associate researcher of the research groups CRAFT and CES. She is co‑editor‑in‑chief of the Journal of Religion in Europe and sits in the board of European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Religiogeographies, Polis, Partecipazione e Conflitto, and the Routledge book series Gendering the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences. Her work explores boundaries and classifications, particularly at the intersection of politics, gender, religion, and science as knowledge production. She has recently co‑edited, with J. Garraio and T. Toldy, Religion, Populism, Gender in the Mediterranean (Routledge 2023).

• 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Underpinnings and Methodological Perspectives 2. Multiple Secularities, Genealogies of Secularism, or Postsecularity? Theorizing Religion and Politics in and beyond Europe 3. Religious symbols and the rise of heritage religion 4. Illiberal Identity Politics and Culturalized Christianity. Commonalities and Differences in Europe 5. Mediatization, Religion and Politics 6. Judicialization of politics and judicialization of religion in the two major court systems in Europe 7. Religious markets, religious marketing, and individual religious choice in Europe 8. Religion and Human Rights: European Puzzles 9. Intersecting gender, religion, and politics: an overview and a research agenda Part II: Actors, Policies and Institutions 10. Religion, security and European borders 11. The intersection of religion and politics in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU 12. Religion and the European Court of Human Rights 13. Religion and party politics in Europe 14. Religion and religious minorities in public institutions 15. Religion and Civil Society in Europe 16. Religion and the economy in Europe 17. Atheism in Europe: Insights from the Pandemic 18. The EU Guidelines on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief and the EU’s External Action: A temporal assessment Part III: Emerging Themes and Current Debates 19. Governing Religious Diversity in Europe 20. The governance of religion in contemporary Europe: temporalities, scales and socio-political factors 21. Religion and environmentalism 22. Femonationalism, Feminism and Religion 23. Gender, sexuality and ‘conservative movements’ in Europe: What are they? How to study them? 24. Faith and Violence: Revisiting the Intersection of Religion, Politics, and Terrorism in Europe 25. Morality Policies and Religion in Europe’s Multi-Level Space 26. Keeping an Eye on ‘The Cults’: The Politics of New Religious Movements in Post World-War II Europe 27. Religion, politics, and the pandemic 28. Populism and Religion in Europe 29. Islam, neoliberalism, and the making of sexual whiteness in Europe. The case of the Netherlands 30. Religion and Free Speech: The Law and Politics of Regulating Hate Speech and Blasphemy 31. Religious Actors and European Union Policies on Artificial Intelligence