The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity :

Abstract

What is Europe and who are the Europeans? This question has raised many answers and arguments, but it still remains unresolved. This book comes as a fresh approach to this on-going debate on the European identity, which seems to be moving across discourses and themes. The question of identity and Europeanism becomes more relevant in the light of European integration. Whom to include and whom to exclude, and how to deal with the increasing diversity with inclusion of new countries in the European Union, has raised renewed debates related to the identity. The intellectual and political conducts of the countries which have come under the European Union has become much wide and varied, and thus, has expanded the range of the discourses on the subject of identity.