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AbstractDoes Christianity re-emerge in politics even in the most secularized part of the world, Western Europe? In this article, the exemplary case of the Netherlands provides empirical evidence for two mechanisms of resurgent Christianity in party politics. In this way, the article also offers a more precise understanding under what conditions various dimensions of religion become (again) or remain politically significant. The first mechanism has been the incentive of secularization and secularism for remaining Christians to regroup in a so-called creative minority to convey an explicitly faith-based message to a broader public. Modernization has therefore not automatically meant less religion in politics. However, creative minorities remained a relatively minor affair in Dutch party politics, despite the large number of Christian migrants and their descendants. Second, Christian and culturally rightwing, secular parties have increasingly referred to a Judeo-Christian culture to mark the political identities of the European Union and its nations in response to Islam's growing visibility. The concept of Judeo-Christian culture foremost functioned as a sacred word to denote the liberal and secular order of the West, reflecting the re-emergence of Christianity as cultural phenomenon rather than faith in West European politics.

AbstractThe article argues that the secular Indian state and the Hindu nationalist movement are invested in restricting changes in religious membership in ways that intensify religious and caste-based inequalities. The secular state and the Hindu nationalist movement attempt to enforce a shared model of religion that takes the form of a fixed territory. In this model, changes in religious membership through conversion are restricted. An analysis of state-civil society interactions in India must therefore move away from a presumed opposition between state secularism on the one hand and religious nationalism and conflict within civil society on the other. The article draws on three cases: (1) nationalist debates over caste and religious conversion, (2) Hindu nationalist mobilization against religious conversion, and (3) state caste-based affirmative action policies that restrict benefits based on religious conversion.

1. Our games! The Pan-Arab games (1953-1965) / Luis Henrique Rolim Silva and Hans-Dieter Gerber -- 2. Pioneer of Olympism in the Middle East : Gabriel Gemayel and Lebanese sport / Andrea L. Stanton -- 3. Women in management and leadership in the Olympic movement in Muslim majority countries : an empirical evaluation of Huntington's clash of civilisations typology / Shushu Chen and Ian Henry -- 4. The sportification and heritagisation of traditional Turkish oil wrestling / Birgit Krawietz -- 5. Out of bounds : cultural barriers to female sports participation in Qatar / Geoff Harkness -- 6. The establishment and development of the initial physical education teachers' training programme for women in Oman / Yousra Al-Sinani -- 7. Book reviews : Makhzanat Arriadah : Korat El-Kadam Namoudhajan [Makhzenization of sport in Morocco : case study of football] and Sport et Politique en Algerie / Mahfoud Amara.

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