1st Edition
Religious Actors in the Public Sphere Means, Objectives, and Effects
1. Introduction Jeffrey Haynes 2. Typifying religio-political actors: the indeterminacy of the religious political party as a phenomenon John Madeley 3. Religious Parties, Churches and Euroscepticism Michael Minkenberg 4.Conceptualizing Religious Advocacy: Religious Interest Groups and the process of public policy making Caelesta Poppelaars & Marcel Hannegraaf 5.The Effects of Religious NGO Advocacy in the field of Human Rights on Transnational Religious Competition Evelyn Bush 6. Religious regulation of politics? The Catholic Church and immigration in Spain Xabier Itçaina, Flora Burchianti 7. New actors on the governance of religious diversity in European cities: The role of interfaith platforms Maria del Mar Griera, Maria Forteza 8. Mosque representatives in Brussels as actors in the local political process: social learning and recognition Corinne Torkens 9. Religious organizations and migration in Austria Julia Morao Permoser, Sieglinde Rosenberger et al 10.The religious movement of ‘Family of Radio Maryja’ as an expression of post 1989 social discontent and marginalization in contemporary Poland Katarzyna Bylok 11. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movement and its Media Strategies. The mobilizing effect of religion in contentious politics Carola Richter 12. Turkey and the European Union: Religious actors, domestic factors and globalisation Jeffrey Haynes 13. Conclusion Anja Hennig
Biography
Jeffrey Haynes is Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Governance and International Relations at London Metropolitan University, UK.
Anja Hennig has a PhD in Comparative Politics from the European University Viadrina, Germany.
