Religion and Politics in the Nation State and the European Union
Religion and Politics in the Nation State and the European Union

Summary/Abstract: Abstract : The gradual development of the European Union into a political system appears to reposition the issue of the relationship between religion and politics, and, at the same time, to raise new questions concerning the structure of the religious and the political function pertaining to the place of the Church in the system of society and of the state. In the context of this inquiry, the immediate question is focused on the increasingly important role that religion is playing in the formation of collective identities, just when a multi-doctrine and, furthermore, a multi-religious reality is being established within the Union. At the same time, the process of political reunification of Europe is creating for the Churches a new political domain of ‘encounter’ and action which could, in the medium term, bring the idea of a reunification of the Churches back to the fore in terms of synergies and, from another point of view, of a nominal coexistence with regard to the other religions which already lodge in the European construction or with which they run parallel in the world.

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