The Ecumenical Movement &amp; the Making of the European Community

Leustean, Lucian N.

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“…The revitalization of cultural diversities in public discourse has led to a severe crisis of understanding between European nations. This goes against the careful ecumenical crafting of the union after WWII (Leustean, 2014) and the use of Christianity as a unifying resource by Christian Democratic politicians (Pöttering, 2010). It caters to findings that the different socio-economic ethics of European Christian denominations can be a stumbling block to European integration in times of crisis (Nelsen and Guth, 2015).…”

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“…The contribution does not only aim at enhancing our understanding of ordoliberalism, but also connects to a growing debate about the role of religion in European integration (Foret, ; McCrea, ; Leuștean, ). The use of ordoliberal arguments with their Protestant value base has reinforced the reference to religion as a marker of cultural superiority in the European South to fend off German demands.…”

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The Religious Foundations of the European Crisis

Hien

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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There has been much talk about ordoliberalism recently. Scholars and the press identify it as the dominant economic instruction sheet for Germany's European crisis politics. However, by analyzing ordoliberalism only as an economic theory, the debate downplays that ordoliberalism is also an ethical theory, with strong roots in Protestant social thought. It is this rooting in Protestant social thought that makes Ordoliberalism incompatible with the socioeconomic ethics of most of the European crisis countries, whose ethics originate in Catholic and Orthodox social thought. This divergence is the source of a crisis of understanding between European nations and hinders a collective response to the Euro crisis.

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The Religious Foundations of the European Crisis

Hien

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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“…From the 2000s, other churches inaugurated their own representation in Brussels, such as the Russian Orthodox Church (in 2002), the Romanians Orthodox Church and the Cypriot Orthodox Church (both in 2007). Although these church diplomatic representations were integrated into the Conference of European Churches in 1999, the Orthodox churches maintained a distinct and controversial character in their engagement with the European Union and the idea of Europe as well (Leustean 2014c).…”

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The Romanian Orthodox Church, the European Union and the Contention on Human Rights

Guglielmi

2021

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Since the 1990s, there has been conflictual interactions between Orthodox Christian churches and human rights in South Eastern Europe, especially during the process of European integration. In this work, I shall concentrate on the case of the Romanian Orthodox Church and explore its current position towards human rights that has developed within the context of EU membership. Focusing on the influence that European integration has had on the Romanian Orthodox Church, I hypothesise a re-orientation of the latter from a position of closure and a general rejection of human rights in the direction of their partial acceptance, with this being related to its attempt to develop a European identity.

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“…Both British and North Americans welcomed this path, which found one of its core pillars in freedom, directly linked to human rights. 4 Moreover, the horrors experienced during and after the war had resulted in a certain revival of religious beliefs, and Christian churches showed growing interest in debates on how to build the European society, including those related to the defence of human rights and to European unity (Chenaux, 1990;Leustean, 2014;Kratochvil and Doležal, 2015;Nelsen and Guth, 2015;Royce, 2017). These factors could favour cultural Europeanism, by opposing European solidarity to proletarian solidarity.…”

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Institutionalizing cultural Europeanism: between transnationalism and national identity (1948-1954)

Castro

Lago

2021

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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Cultural Europeanism is a variant of the process of European integration attested within the framework of the Cold War. It will be mostly anti-communist, although it will couch elements favouring West-East dialogue. The governments will promote an intergovernmental model based on multilateral cooperation and national identity, and put into practice in institutions such as the Western Union or the Council of Europe. Non-governmental organizations, such as the European Movement, will be committed to a more transnational model based on the affirmation and promotion of the idea of Europe through institutions such as the College of Europe, the European Centre for Culture or the European Cultural Foundation. Within cultural Europeanism, networks of secondary institutionalization, such as educational seminars, ended up having as much or more impact than the primary entities from which they emerged.

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The Ecumenical Movement & the Making of the European Community

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The Religious Foundations of the European Crisis

The Religious Foundations of the European Crisis

The Romanian Orthodox Church, the European Union and the Contention on Human Rights

Institutionalizing cultural Europeanism: between transnationalism and national identity (1948-1954)

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