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Religion and Politics in the 21st Century is composed of a number of articles that were presented during the 2012 international conference on ""Religion and Politics in the Globalization Era"" organized by the Centre for Political Analysis in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With careful attention given to 21st century religious resurgence and its dynamic interactions with political structures and the public sphere, the present volume captures a wide variety of perspectives on contemporary religion and p

Irrespective of the level of analysis, identity remains a vague concept, slippery, and insufficiently elaborated and defined. Be it individual or collective, ethnical or social, local or general, regional (e.g. the EU) or global, identity is a recurrent subject in political debates. Situated on the edge of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology it increasingly becomes a leading paradigm in the area of social sciences. Starting from the broader European perspective

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories -- Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies -- Bibliography -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations -- Bibliography -- Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe -- Formulating the questions -- The Judaeo-Christian legacy -- The Main Elements of European Identity at Present -- The Challenges of European Identity -- The Crisis of the European Identity -- Multiculturalism: Definitions, Typologies, and Brief History -- Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- The Failure of Multiculturalism as Public Policy in Western Europe -- Does Multiculturalism Represent a Challenge to New Europe's identity? -- Multiculturalism and the European Identity -- Bibliography -- Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management -- 1. Theories of Assimilation -- 2. Acculturation Theory -- 3. Multiculturalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism -- Post-Multiculturalism -- 4. Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- 5. Moldavian Multiculturalism - A Failed Experiment -- Gagauzian territorial autonomy - a form of multiculturalism -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849-1939 -- Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848 -- References.