Transnational religion and Europeanization

Byrnes, Timothy A.

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“…During international discussions over possible Eastern enlargement, Pope John Paul II strongly pushed for expansion of the EU eastwards as an effort to re-evangelize Europe with Christian values. Later, Pope Benedict XVI called for Europe to be referred to as a Christian civilization in the European Constitution’s preamble (Byrnes, 2006).…”

Section: Religion Churches and Lgbt Rights In European Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rainbows and crosses: Noncompliance with EU law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination

Siegel

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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The Employment Equality Framework Directive (EED) is the first and still the only EU law that requires EU member states to combat sexual orientation discrimination. It requires states to change employment laws or draft news ones that prevent employers and coworkers from discriminating against gay and lesbian employees. Implementation of the EED was problematic, despite strong support for the law among many EU member states and their publics. An analysis of the EED’s provisions shows that in countries where religious organizations provide a substantial share of a country’s social services, governments are more likely to transpose the directive incorrectly. These findings are based on an innovative research design that addresses one legal subject matter within a directive. Contradicting earlier research showing it has little to no role, public opinion about an EU law can affect compliance. This article also sheds more light on how religious organizations and beliefs affect European integration, comparatively understudied in the literature. These findings also have important implications for the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights legislation at the EU level.

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Section: Religion Churches and Lgbt Rights In European Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rainbows and crosses: Noncompliance with EU law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination

Siegel

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…For instance, the debates on the Christian roots of European integration, which were intensely discussed at the European Convention, attest to the importance of the question and the broader concerns about the features of secularism, which are present in political debates, academic circles, as well as among legal professionals (Foret and Schlesinger 2005;Byrnes 2006;Casanova 2006;Nexon 2006;Faltin 2007;Doe 2009;Leustean and Madeley 2009;McCrea 2010). While this and other well-known controversies cast religion as a source of contention, Christianity has also been often depicted as a source of legitimization of European integration, thus constituting a significant variable in the studies on the public and political attitudes to the EU (see Marks et al 2000;Nelsen et al 2001;Coupland 2003;Gallagher 2005;Boomgaarden and Freire 2009;Chelini-Pont 2009;Foret 2009a).…”

Section: Religion and European Identity: Christian Heritage Legitimamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reale 2003;Woods 2005) to sociology and political sciences (e.g. Byrnes 2006;Nexon 2006;Faltin 2007;Kerry 2007;Leustean and Madeley 2008;Pellivert 2009;McRea 2011;Norris and Inglehart 2011). Debates on various models of laïcité/secularism in Europe have also appeared in this context (cf.…”

Section: Religion and European Identity: Christian Heritage Legitimamentioning

confidence: 99%

The European Union and the Catholic Church

Kratochvíl

Doležal

2015

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The main purpose of this series is to provide and sustain excellence in international relations research in and on Central Europe. The series aims to provide readers with high quality publications from scholars conducting IR research from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) perspectives that will resonate with the IR community as well as practitioners in and beyond the region. Reflecting on the range and depth of research and scholarship in this region, this series welcomes original and innovative contributions from established IR researchers who have helped to establish the IR field in Central and Eastern Europe as well as by emerging scholars who are building on this tradition. The series is purposely interdisciplinary and welcomes studies which examine IR topics from the CEE perspectives in international politics. These perspectives are shaped by the experience of small states vs. great powers' interests, regionalisation, national minorities, the role of international institutions, the position between the West and East broadly defined, as well as intellectual traditions.

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“…Claims for power by transnational religious communities have always been perceived as grave threats by the upholders of a state-based international order, from the seventeenth century's violent departure from the 'more or less unified society of Western Christendom' to current fears of a supposed Islamicist plan to establish a transnational Caliphate or of the impact of a range of 'transnational religions' on European integration. 155 On the other hand, precisely because religious claims, unlike nationalist claims, do not necessarily involve territorial claims, they may be perceived as potentially operating alongside, rather than in conflict with, the fundamental structures of the international legal system. Unlike nationalist claims, they do not necessarily challenge the territorial identity of states.…”

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‘The Sacred Conspiracy’: Religion, Nationalism, and the Crisis of Internationalism

Berman¹

2011

Leiden Journal of International Law

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The goal of this article is to initiate an interdisciplinary and historical reflection on one of the central preoccupations of our time: the relationship of religion to international order. This current project grows out of my long-standing work on the genealogy of modern internationalism. In my past work, I have argued that internationalists constructed their own disciplines in tandem with their construction of nationalism, to such an extent that modern ‘internationalism’ and modern ‘nationalism’ must be understood in relation to each other; in the present essay, I contend that ‘internationalism’ and ‘religion’ have an equally mutually constitutive relationship. This article seeks to retell the story of international law over the past century through the lens of its relationship to religion – a lens that both overlaps with and differs from that of nationalism. Its historical narrative is rooted in the early twentieth century – a period to which so many of our ‘modern’ cultural conceptions may be traced. Its methodology is broadly interdisciplinary, setting changing international legal conceptions of religion in relation to contemporaneous developments in domains such as sociology, religious studies, and historiography. This is the first piece of a series of projected studies on the construction and contestation of ‘religion’, ‘the secular’, and ‘the international’ over the past century. It is also my first publication associated with the interdisciplinary Religion and Internationalism Project, which I co-direct at Brown University.

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Transnational religion and Europeanization

Cited by 21 publications

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Rainbows and crosses: Noncompliance with EU law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination

Rainbows and crosses: Noncompliance with EU law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination

The European Union and the Catholic Church

‘The Sacred Conspiracy’: Religion, Nationalism, and the Crisis of Internationalism

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