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dc.contributor.authorAUGENSTEIN, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2008-01-30T16:25:36Z
dc.date.available2008-01-30T16:25:36Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.issn1725-6739
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/7912
dc.description.abstractIn the European integration process, the European Union continues to struggle for an identity that can generate widespread support amongst its peoples. In this context it has been suggested by some that the European Union should embrace the Christian values that underpin its national traditions and cultures. I shall argue that, instead of relying on a communitarian vision of a ‘Christian Europe’, a European identity should build on a culture of religious tolerance. A European culture of religious tolerance draws on the enduring of difference and the acknowledgement of persisting and intractable conflict as essential experiences of Europe’s Christian past. Thus understood, tolerance lies at the roots of a European identity. At the same time, and through the conditional inclusion of religious diversity in the European nation-states, a European culture of religious tolerance creates over time new commonalities between Europe’s religiously permeated national traditions. Thus understood, tolerance only brings about the conditions for the development of a genuine European identity that amounts to more than (the sum of) its national counterparts.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI LAWen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2008/04en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectChristianityen
dc.subjectEuropean integrationen
dc.subjectEuropean identityen
dc.subjectLockeen
dc.subjecttoleranceen
dc.subjectreligionen
dc.subjectnationen
dc.subjectcultureen
dc.subjectfundamental/human rightsen
dc.subjectconstitutional lawen
dc.titleA European Culture of Religious Toleranceen
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