2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Conflicts between the religious issues and the Secularism system among the Member States in the EU
| Project/Area Number |
23653046
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
International relations
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 地域統合 / 世俗主義 / EU |
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| Research Abstract |
The religious issues in the EU are not a traditional European conflict between the state and church but a task for the Christian to co-exist with non-Christian religions. However, mainly because of the fact that most of the EU member states declares secularism even if a National Church is constituted. Under such a situation, religious issues have been rarely taken up within the EU related research field. The unexpected upheaval called “Arab Spring” forced the EU to face the Islam countries and to review its conventional policies toward these countries. But the reaction of the EU has been very slow, basically continuing the existing policies despite the change of the government from the secular to a religious one. Very little development is observed even at the time of the final stage of this research. The research term completed with the fact finding, examining the evolution of the “Arab Spring”, analysis of the (non)reaction of the EU toward “Arab Spring”.
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