The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe

1. Introduction
Effie Fokas and Alberta Giorgi

Part I: Theoretical Underpinnings and Methodological Perspectives

2. Multiple Secularities, Genealogies of Secularism, or Postsecularity? Theorizing Religion and Politics in and beyond Europe
Marian Burchardt and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

3. Religious symbols and the rise of heritage religion
Lori G. Beaman and Teemu Taira

4. Illiberal Identity Politics and Culturalized Christianity. Commonalities and Differences in Europe
Anja Hennig

5. Mediatization, Religion and Politics
Mia Lovheim and Linnea Jensdotter

6. Judicialization of politics and judicialization of religion in the two major court systems in Europe
James T. Richardson

7. Religious markets, religious marketing, and individual religious choice in Europe
Jörg Stolz and Jeremy Senn

8. Religion and Human Rights: European Puzzles
Olga Breskaya, Giuseppe Giordan and Siniša Zrinščak

9. Intersecting gender, religion, and politics: an overview and a research agenda
Alberta Giorgi

Part II: Actors, Policies and Institutions

10. Religion, security and European borders
Jeffrey Haynes

11. The intersection of religion and politics in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU
Lucy Vickers

12. Religion and the European Court of Human Rights
Effie Fokas

13. Religion and party politics in Europe
Luca Ozzano

14. Religion and religious minorities in public institutions
Silvio Ferrari, Alessia Passarelli and Ilaria Valenzi

15. Religion and Civil Society in Europe
David Herbert

16. Religion and the economy in Europe
Xabier Itçaina

17. Atheism in Europe: Insights from the Pandemic
Steve Kettell and Peter Kerr

18. The EU Guidelines on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief and the EU’s External Action:  A temporal assessment
Pasquale Annicchino

Part III: Emerging Themes and Current Debates

19. Governing Religious Diversity in Europe
Anna Triandafyllidou and Tina Magazzini

20. The governance of religion in contemporary Europe: temporalities, scales and socio-political factors
Mar Griera and Julia Martinez-Arino

21. Religion and environmentalism
Irene Becci and Alberto Manconi

22. Femonationalism, Feminism and Religion
Sara R. Farris and Charlène Calderaro

23. Gender, sexuality and ‘conservative movements’ in Europe: What are they? How to study them?
David Paternotte

24. Faith and Violence: Revisiting the Intersection of Religion, Politics, and Terrorism in Europe
Margarita Markoviti

25. Morality Policies and Religion in Europe’s Multi-Level Space
Eva-Maria Euchner  

26. Keeping an Eye on ‘The Cults’: The Politics of New Religious Movements in Post World-War II Europe
Eileen Barker

27. Religion, politics, and the pandemic
Lene Kühle and Brian Conway

28. Populism and Religion in Europe
Daniel Nilsson DeHanas

29. Islam, neoliberalism, and the making of sexual whiteness in Europe. The case of the Netherlands
Paul Mepschen

30. Religion and Free Speech: The Law and Politics of Regulating Hate Speech and Blasphemy
Jeroen Temperman

31. Religious Actors and European Union Policies on Artificial Intelligence
Ilaria Valenzi and Boris Rähme

Biography

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).