SOURCE: EB, SPRING 2019



TO REMEMBER …
 EU – union of nation states, and European citizens (two sources of legitimacy)
 What is NATION/VOLK/THE PEOPLE?
 Nationalism; National Interests, welfare; National Enemies etc. (?)
 Collective (national) X Individual (personal) Identity
 Variety of meanings, multicultural competence
 Primordial, Sacred (ethnic/cultural), Civil (political) (Edward SHILS)
 Border Perspective: Im/Permeability
 Various Integrational/Absorption Capacity
 Case of Immigrants Quota (?)


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EUROPEAN IDENTITY (DELANTY)
 Historical perspective
 Europeanness as (Western) Christendom
 Constitutive others/outside - role of Islam & Orthodoxy
 Significance of Crusades/Crusaders, Constantinople seized (1453)
 1492 (New World) – colonization & the end of Reconquista
 Double schism (Roman x Orthodoxy; Catholics x Protestants)
 Religious war, Victory of Protestantism
 Peace of Westphalia (1648)
 European identity as set of values (cultures)

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CHRISTIANIZATION
WAVES





RELIGIONS IN EUROPE
None