Religion and identity

Prof. Dr. Ryszard Michalak ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Internationale Beziehungen an der Universität Grünberg (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski).Dr. habil. Tytus Jaskulowski ist Universitätsprofessor, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Zeitgeschichte am Institut für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft der Universität Grünberg (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski).Stefan Dudra is Associate Professor as well as Director of the Institute of Political Science and Administration at the University of Zielona Góra.Prof. Dr. Ryszard Michalak ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Internationale Beziehungen an der Universität Grünberg (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski).Dr Dorota Szaban, Associate Professor, is Director of the Institute of Sociology, University of Zielona Góra, Poland.Piotr Pochyly, PhD, Assistant professor, is deputy director of the Institute of Political Science and Public Aadministration, University of Zielona Góra, Poland.

The role of religious identity in social communities has gained importance in the past few years, as many questions about individual and collective identity have been brought up in the fields of science and everyday life. Religion, despite the process of secularisation, remains an important component of human identity. Increasingly, religion is also becoming an object of political influence. This volume argues that religion actually determinates various phenomena in the political sphere today.

Shaping religious identity: An analysis of the politics of religious communities.

This volume analyses the politics of identity in specific communities defined by religion.