1. Introduction, Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski; 2. The Religio-Political Nexus: Historical and Comparative Reflections, Johann P. Arnason; 3. Politics and Religion in a Global Age, Jeffrey Haynes; 4. Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity, Elizabeth Hurd and Linnell Cady; 5. Europe in the Global Rise of Religious Nationalism, Mark Juergensmeyer; 6. European Civil Religion in the Making?, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski; 7. Democracy, Secularism and Islam in Turkey, Ayhan Kaya; 8. Orthodox Religion and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia, Mikhail Maslovskiy and Nikita Shangin; 9. Religion and Politics, Church and State in Chinese History, John Lagerwey; 10. Religion and the State in Contemporary Japan, Elisabetta Porcu; 11. Arab Revolutions and Political Islam: A Structural Approach, Karel Cerný; 12. Beyond Post-Secularism: Religion in Political Analysis (Review Article), Michal Matlak; Notes on the Contributors; Index.

Annual of European and Global Studies Editors: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wagner An annual collection of the best research on European and global themes, the Annual of European and Global Studies publishes issues with a specific focus, each addressing critical developments and controversies in the field. This topical first volume deals with the relationship between religion and politics as a key connecting link between European and global affairs. It discusses the role of religion and its prospects in the contemporary world against the background of theoretical and empirical research. The debates on religion and politics have to a high degree focused on contrasts between Europe and other parts of the world; the long-established assumption that modern societies are on a secularising path seems to have a stronger claim to validity in Europe than elsewhere. The book shows, however, that if European modernity represents an exit from religion, this historical process and its implications are still very imperfectly understood. On the one hand, the volume discusses growing Islamic presence in Europe as a reminder of enduring religious pluralism, not least in view of the high prominence given to Islamic experience in arguments against over-generalised notions of secularisation. On the other hand, the question of Christian-motivated extremism and religious nationalism is equally explored. Against this background, contributors to the volume discuss also the role of religion in non-European countries including China, Japan, Russia and the MENA region. Johann P. Arnason is emeritus professor of sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and visiting professor at the Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University, Prague. He is the co-editor of The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy (2013). Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is professor and Chair of Political Science at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw. He is the co-editor of Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union (2012). [WBC logo] Cover image: (c) manley099/iStockphoto.com Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Johann P. Arnason is emeritus professor of sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and visiting professor at the Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University, Prague.

Arnason taught sociology in Heidelberg and Bielefeld from 1972 to 1975, and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, from 1975 to 2003. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and at the University of Leipzig, and a research fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftung, the Swedish Institute of Advanced Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Essen), the Lichtenberg- Kolleg in Göttingen and the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt. His research interests centre on social theory and historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations.

Ireneusz P. Karolewski is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw.

Karolewski graduated and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Potsdam in Germany. He was assistant professor at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Potsdam between 1999 and 2008 and visiting professor at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques in Lille (France) and the University of Pondicherry (India) as well as Research Fellow at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California in Santa Barbara. His research interests include European citizenship, collective identity in Europe, nation and nationalism in Europe and constitutionalisation of the EU.