03.07.2023
Objects of Political Desire VI: Memory Over Time

Why memory matters: it makes us historical subjects capable of imagining the future.

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21.05.2019
How Identity Stole the Debate

The EUI professor examines Europe’s ongoing struggle over social values in times of rising Islamophobia and growing nostalgia for a Christian Europe.

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20.02.2019
The Return of Religious Politics

An interview with the Heinrich Böll Foundation co-president on the relationship between religion and politics in Germany and Europe today.

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26.12.2017
Ton Lemaire: ‘I’m an animal in the depths of my thoughts’

Ton Lemaire pleads for a new universal morality, which he calls humanimalism.

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01.04.2017
Security and Identity: Between Fantasy and Reality

France’s long and troubled relationship with Islam, and its connexion to a sense of insecurity, is unpacked by Olivier Roy and Esther Benbassa, who also explore the current role of religion in politics in general.

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28.03.2017
The Other People

Erica Meijers unpacks the concept of ‘the people’ at the heart of populist movement’s message, and argues that a look at its theological roots can help to understand and subvert it.

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01.07.2016
Fighting the Unholy Alliance: How Religion Can Contribute to Integration

To what extent are the values we ascribe to Europe today rooted in religion?

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18.05.2016
The Polish Catholic Church Has Become Intertwined with Euroscepticism and the Promotion of Conservative “National Values”

After a surge of support in the Presidential and General Elections last year, the right-wing national conservative Law and Justice Party now dominates Polish politics.

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15.02.2012
Where Would We Be Without Barbarians?

“Barbarians” still provide us with a way out of our own frustrations, identity-conflicts and forbidden feelings.

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