Religious Citizens: Religious affect and varieties of European secularity in Denmark, Spain, and Turkey

Religious Citizens explored how religious citizens associated with Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark, Catholicism in Spain, and Sunni Islam in Turkey, drew on – and were shaped by – both these religious traditions and the traditions of secular citizenship particular to each setting.

THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED
Project period: January 2014 - December 2016

Taking seriously the multiplicity already encoded in the term religious citizen, the project analyzed the concerns and commitments that religious citizens formulate in relation to their own lives and in relation to wider society and the state within the intertwined trajectories of distinct religious traditions and national civic traditions. Our starting hypothesis was that it was useful to keep an open mind about the ways in which the commitment to certain religious traditions structures the practitioners’ imaginary of the secular. In studying adherents of religious traditions that have dominant positions in society and close relations to the state, the project asked what can be learned about Danish, Spanish, and Turkish secularity by approaching the state and its regimes of citizenship not as external to religious traditions but as co-constitutive of them.

The project was funded by:

The research project Religious Citizens: Varieties of European Secularity and Religious Subjectivity in Denmark, Spain, and Turkey is funded by The Danish Council for Independent Research| Humanities.

Project: Religious Citizens: Varieties of European Secularity and Religious Subjectivity in Denmark, Spain, and Turkey
PI: Heiko Henkel
Start: January 2014
End: December 2016