caa a22 4500 467898480 CHVBK 20180406152810.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-007-9068-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-007-9068-x Knippenberg Hans Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut The political geography of religion: historical state-church relations in Europe and recent challenges [Elektronische Daten] [Hans Knippenberg] Historical processes of state formation and nation building are crucial for an understanding of the geography of religions and churches in Europe. Each country has developed its own model of state-church relations, giving rise to a ‘bewildering variety' as Grace Davie aptly remarks. The aim of this paper is to bring some order to this variety by developing a framework for the comparative study of church-state relations based on Stein Rokkan's famous conceptual map and recent extensions of it to Central and Eastern Europe by John Madeley. According to that framework Europe has been divided into three mono-confessional (Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox) blocs and two multi-confessional culture belts from Northwest to Southeast, and from Northeast to Southeast. This historical pattern has been challenged by secularisation, which started with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution (Western Europe) and the Russian Revolution (Eastern Europe until the velvet revolutions of 1989/1991) and then became widespread after the ‘cultural revolutions' of the 1960s. A second challenge has to do with globalisation and its consequences, such as massive immigration and the rise of immigrant religions, and in general deterritorialisation, which means the disembeddedness of religion from its national territory. A third challenge concerns reterritorialisation at other (supranational, regional, transnational, and local) scales, of which the new territorial order of the European Union seems to be the most important. Finally, this paper serves as an introduction to the case studies on church-state relations in this special issue. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 Europe nationallicence Geography of religions nationallicence Nation building nationallicence Political geography nationallicence State-church relations nationallicence State formation nationallicence GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 67/4(2006-12-01), 253-265 0343-2521 67:4<253 2006 67 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-007-9068-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-007-9068-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Knippenberg Hans Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 67/4(2006-12-01), 253-265 0343-2521 67:4<253 2006 67 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 16475167X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer