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AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 A Shared Cultural Palette: European Origins of British Secular Ways of War2 Developing Secular Habits in War: the Northern Irish Troubles3 The British Secular Habitus up to and including the 9/11 Wars4 War in Afghanistan: From Secular Hysteresis to a Culturalist Approach, 2001 -- 20105 War in Iraq: Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Question of Secular Democracy, 2003 -- 20046 War at Home: Pastoral Power and Secular Regimes of Security in Britain, 2005 -- 20107 Restructuring the Secular HabitusNotes BibliographyIndex.

International audience ; The deeply social and political significance of religion becomes apparent when looking at how different religious traditions can challenge coexistence and toler ance in everyday life.1 Ideology-expressed in discourse and doctrine/ religious meaning, and moral values3-undergirds identity politics. As such, it is import ant to understand the place of religion in the social organization and transform ation of a given society. 4 Above all, discriminatory and stereotyping ideologies behind the categorizing processes of religious affiliations are inherent to any context, whether local, regional, or international.5 Southeast Europe provides a colorful display of the relationship between religion and politics at the level of religious leaders, state actors, intellectual elites, and ordinary people in everyday interactions. Th e importance of native language in religious offices and the pas sion for historical incursions in the everyday life of public discussions-in print media and online networks-shows the intricate interconnectedness of religion and politics. In everyday conversation, people commonly raid history to their own end, convinced that religious movements and political movements have something in common. Historical Incursions in Everyday Life People often repurpose history to legitimate their view of how the world was, is, and should be. Though such forays into history may seem innocent, often their impact on political and everyday life is not. In February 2012, the Vati can organized a world conference to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (O ctober 28, 312) and the legacy of Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity. In October 2013, the Serbian Orthodox Church also organized in Nish, the birthplace of Constantine, an even larger world conference to commemorate the importance of the Edict of Milan, in which Constantine established th e Christian movement as another official reli gion of the Roman Empire. The st ory of Constantine's acceptance of Christianity became important both to the growth of early Christianity and to the growth of Constantine's power, but it also embedded a narrative of providence within a

Review of Uskonto ja maailmanpolitiikka, eds. Heikki Pesonen, Tuula Sakaranaho and Sini Paukkunen (Helsinki, Gaudeamus, 2019).

Mit dem Gerichtsbeschluss vom 22. Oktober 2020 bezüglich der Zulässigkeit der embryopathologischen Abtreibung, hat der polnische Verfassungsgerichtshof den Zugang zu einer legalen Abtreibung in Polen auf zwei Fälle beschränkt: direkte und unmittelbare Gefahr für das Leben oder die Gesundheit der Frau oder wenn die Schwangerschaft das Resultat eines sexuellen Übergriffs war. Mit der Einschränkung des Zugangs zu legaler Abtreibung hat der Verfassungsgerichtshof nicht nur das allgegenwärtig strikte Gesetz in Polen weiter verschärft, sondern auch die Rechte der Frauen im Bereich der reproduktiven Gesundheit signifikant eingeschränkt. Das Urteil hat die öffentliche Debatte bezüglich der Abtreibungen wieder entfacht und zu einer Mobilisation auf beiden Seiten, sowohl der Befürworter als auch der Opposition der Einschränkungen geführt. Diese Arbeit behandelt sowohl die sozialen als auch die moralischen Konflikte rund um die Thematik der Zulässigkeit und den Zugang zu Abtreibungen durch den sich entfaltenden Diskurs der Pro-Life-Befürworter als auch der Pro-Choice-Gruppierung und deren Akteure in Polen nach dem Urteil. Die Gegenstände der Analyse sind: Streike in ganz Polen der Pro-Choice Bewegung sowie der Pro-Life-Fürsprecher der katholischen Kirche. Die Frage stellt sich inwiefern die analysierten Diskurse mit den politischen Interessen der jeweiligen Gruppierungen verbunden sind. ; With the judgment on the 22nd of October 2020 on permissibility of embryopathological abortion the Polish Constitutional Tribunal restricted access to legal abortions in Poland to two cases: direct and imminent danger for life or health of the woman or when the pregnancy is the result of a criminal offence. With restricting access to legal abortion, the Tribunal not only tightened up the already restrictive law but also significantly limited women's reproductive health rights in Poland.The judgment reignited the public debate around abortion and led to mobilization on both sides – the supporters and opponents of the restrictions. This ...

In 2010, a 14-year-old boy was brutally murdered in a suburb outside of Rio de Janeiro when a group of skinheads observed him at a party and suspected that he might be gay (McLoughlin 2011). This scale of horrific homophobia is not uncommon in Brazil, where rates of violence against gays, lesbians, and transgendered people are reported to be amongst the highest in the world. A study conducted with the support of Grupo Gay da Bahia offers the conservative estimate of 260 gays killed in the country in 2010, indicating that rates doubled in only 5 years. The statistic sits uncomfortably with the image of Brazil as a sexually tolerant society, where the legalization of homosexuality was established shortly after the nation's independence from Portugal. It was therefore with a great sense of achievement for proponents of gay rights that, in May 2011, the Brazil Supreme Court agreed to award same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals (BBC 2011). Though the decision stops short of approving marriage for same-sex couples, it has been heralded as an important step against discrimination and toward acknowledging the rights of gays, lesbians, and transgenders to love and live without the condemnation of the state. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. All rights reserved.

The article discusses the reasons that prompted the governments and expert of many EU countries to pay increased attention to the activities of the religious and political association of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood (BM) and a number of Shiite groups (primarily Hezbollah) within the EU in recent years. The study indicates that the causes of it are the terrorist attacks in France and Austria in 2020, which gave rise to a wave of retaliatory measures from the authorities, and also a growing influence of this Muslim organizations and groups on social and political life of the countries of the Old World. The article analyses the means, methods and mechanisms characteristic of groups associated with the structures of BM and Hezbollah in Europe, the specifics of their activities. The authority and influence of radical groups are noticeably weakening in the Middle East region. However, in the Old World they manage to fit into the current political-ideological discourse, resorting to the left, "progressist" rhetoric to hide their Islamist identity. They are exploiting the far-fetched feelings of disadvantage and vulnerability that are spreading in Muslim communities in socio-political environment. As inter-civilizational relations in Europe worsen, radical groups publicly claim the status of "defenders of humiliated Muslims", trying to legalize their radical views and strategies. Further aggravation of the confrontation between political elites in the EU and Islamic radicals seems inevitable. Islamist radicalism becomes a factor in political life in the European Union.