Christendom and European Identity: The Legacy of a Grand Narrative since 1789Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015 M02 6 - 397 páginas This book critically explores the idea of Europe since the French Revolution from the perspective of intellectual history. It traces the dominant and recurring theme of Europe-as-Christendom in discourse concerning the relationship of religion, politics and society, in historiography and hermeneutics, and in theories and constructions of identity and ‘otherness’. It examines the evolution of a grand narrative by which European elites have sought to define European and national identity. This narrative, the author argues, maintains the existence of common historical and intellectual roots, common values, culture and religion. The book explores its powerful legacy in the positive creation of a sense of European unity, the ways in which it has been exploited for ideological purposes, and its impact on non-Christian communities within Europe. |
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The challenge to EuropeasChristendom | 36 |
Christendom reconstructed | 52 |
Chapter 4 The significance of the Christendom narrative in 20thcentury Christian Democracy and Christian Socialism | 66 |
19thcentury models of European unity | 77 |
Chapter 6 The Christendom legacy in 20thcentury federalism | 98 |
The Spirit of Europe and its Others | 185 |
Chapter 11 Nationalism Europeanism and the grand narrative | 187 |
a remodelled narrative | 207 |
Chapter 13 EuropeasChristendom and the Jews of the European Diaspora | 218 |
Christendom and the idea of civilization in the long 19th century | 238 |
Chapter 15 Islam and Christendom | 255 |
Chapter 16 The question of Russia | 283 |
barbarism and civilization reassessed | 299 |
Christendom as the Realm of Universal History | 113 |
Chapter 7 The appropriation of Universal History | 115 |
Chapter 8 Christendom as a hermeneutical realm | 134 |
Chapter 9 The Christendom legacy in 20thcentury histories | 154 |
Chapter 10 From Universal History to the history of Europe as Idea | 172 |
Chapter 18 Christendom as the spirit of Europe | 318 |
Conclusion | 331 |
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Christendom and European Identity: The Legacy of a Grand Narrative Since 1789 Mary Anne Perkins Vista previa limitada - 2004 |