Towards a Legitimate Role of Religion in the Domain of Socio-economic Rights. An Empirical Study Among Adolescents in North West European Countries

In the article the authors note that since the 1970s, with the rise of the Islamic movement and the Islamic revolution in Iran, philosophers and political scientists started to talk about religious renaissance in many regions of the world. In addition, the point at issue is the growing role of religion in society, including European countries that have long ago gone through the process of secularization. The reasons for this phenomenon, regardless of its name, are diverse, but understandable: secular ideologies of the last century failed to explain the existing social problems and give them a rational alternative.

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Effects of Insecticides, Organic Matter Additions and Soil Tillage on Seedling Pests of Sugar Beet in Four North-West European Countries (Abstract)

Biotic Interactions and Soil-Borne Diseases - Developments in Agricultural and Managed Forest Ecology ◽

10.1016/b978-0-444-88728-3.50013-5 ◽

1991 ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

L. BRUSSAARD ◽

A. EL TITI ◽

W. POWELL ◽

G.A. WINDER ◽

A.M. DEWAR ◽

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Keyword(s):

Organic Matter ◽

Sugar Beet ◽

European Countries ◽

Soil Tillage ◽

North West ◽

West European

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Narratives and varieties of everyday transnationalism

Everyday Europe ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447334200.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 171-194

Author(s):

Adrian Favell ◽

Janne Solgaard Jensen ◽

David Reimer

Keyword(s):

Reference Point ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

European Countries ◽

The South ◽

North West ◽

Cross Border ◽

Points Of View ◽

The Cross ◽

Cross National ◽

West European

The chapter introduces the cross-national comparative material offered by the qualitative interviews conducted in the EUMEAN survey. Building on Juan Díez Medrano’s study (2003) of how Europe is framed differently by Germans, Spanish and British, the chapter focuses on the discussions about mobility and cross-border experiences of residents of the five West European countries in EUCROSS (i.e., also adding Denmark and Italy in comparative terms). Taking the confident identities of Danes in Europe as its reference point, it contrasts the less experienced but sometimes more idealist points of view of Spanish and Italians, with the more doubtful voices of Germans and British. Tensions in their cross-border relations also surface, particularly between the privileged North-West of the continent and the South.

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A trait-based analysis of the role of phosphorus vs. nitrogen enrichment in plant species loss across North-west European grasslands

Journal of Applied Ecology ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02023.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 48 (5) ◽

pp. 1155-1163 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Tobias Ceulemans ◽

Roeland Merckx ◽

Maarten Hens ◽

Olivier Honnay

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Nitrogen Enrichment ◽

Species Loss ◽

North West ◽

West European

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Reshaping the European City and Territory

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777300002083 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 295-305

Author(s):

Christian Montès

Keyword(s):

Physical Environment ◽

The State ◽

Town Planning ◽

European Countries ◽

European City ◽

New Towns ◽

Role Of The State ◽

West European ◽

Milton Keynes

Gordon Cherry, Town Planning in Britain since 1900 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), 260 pp., £12.99, ISBN 0–631–19994–2.Mark Clapson, Invincible green suburbs, brave new towns (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), 242 pp., £45.00 (hb), ISBN 0–719–04135–X.Mark Clapson, Mervyn Dobbin and Peter Waterman, eds., The Best Laid Plans. Milton Keynes since 1967 (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1998), 142 pp., ISBN 1–860–20556–9.Gilles Massardier, Expertise et aménagement du territoire. L'Etat savant (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996), 286 pp., 160 FF, ISBN 2–738–44903–4.Danièle Voldman, La reconstruction des villes françaises de 1940 à 1954. Histoire d'une politique (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997), 488 pp., 270 FF, ISBN 2–738–45194–2.About one century ago, a movement was born which aimed at reforming the physical environment of cities in order to reform society. It greatly broadened the scope of the former, piecemeal Improvement Commissions which had begun to beautify the cities. Five recent and varied publications will be reviewed here, originating from both British and French academics and planners. We shall use them to make a second reading of ideas and processes contributing to the (re)shaping of town and country in two west European countries. Often described as entities with distinct political, social and economic agendas, both countries nevertheless developed strong confidence in the planning role of the state in cities as well as in ‘town and country’.

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Societal Level of Religiosity and Religious Identity Expression in Europe

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022022117737302 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (6) ◽

pp. 959-975 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jolanda van der Noll ◽

Anette Rohmann ◽

Vassilis Saroglou

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

Elevated Level ◽

European Countries ◽

Multilevel Analyses ◽

Cultural Characteristics ◽

Religious Symbols ◽

Societal Level ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

Identity Expression

Growing diversity in terms of values and worldviews is one of the main challenges in current European societies. It is often argued that, in these societies, suspicion toward some aspects and forms of religion, if not religion in general is one of the main obstacles toward the acceptance of minority religious practices. In this article, we focused on the role of religion as a part of culture across European societies in allowing or inhibiting the expression of a religious identity by wearing visible religious symbols in the workplace. We examined the, intuitive but still to be tested, assumption that religious identity expression is more accepted in societies with an elevated level of societal religiosity in a European context. Using the 2006 data of Eurobarometer 65.4 on discrimination, we examined differences in the acceptance of religious identity expression through support for wearing visible religious symbols in 26 European societies. Results of multilevel analyses showed cross-societal variation in the acceptance of wearing visible religious symbols and that societal religiosity positively predicts the acceptance of religious identity expression. Our results showed that it is meaningful to differentiate between European countries when examining the role of cultural characteristics at the societal level when analyzing individual attitudes related to identity expressions and their acceptance.

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