The Tempting of Europe, the Political Seduction of the Cross
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23138536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanna Mancini (0000-0002-7765-6935, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 111-135 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660384.003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W13460567 |
| ISBN | 9780199660384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This chapter examines legal and political responses to the growing presence of Islam in Europe through the lens of Carl Schmitt’s thought. It points out how such responses draw on an essentialist and idealized notion of the people, and aim at artificially reinforcing the cultural and religious homogeneous character of the European public sphere, thus pursuing an ‘identitarian’ model of democracy. It concludes that the role attributed to the ‘Christian roots’ of Europe in contemporary discourses is analogous to the role that Schmitt ascribed to the Catholic Church in representing the values which were the essence of European civilization and separated it from ‘uncivilized’ others.
Aesthetics · Character (mathematics) · Civilization · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Theology · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |