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Is Europe Christian?
By Olivier Roy
Hurst, 112pp, £14.99/$19.99

Everything seems to be about identity these days: politics, culture – even religion. Some of this is directed at persuading people that they should support a particular view simply because they belong to a particular group. In other cases, reflection on identity issues is a way of comprehending what is happening to a locality, nation, or even continent. The latter is the focus of Olivier Roy’s

Is Europe Christian? A professor at Florence’s European University Institute, Roy seeks to outline what is happening in Europe vis-à-vis religion and what this means for Europe’s self-understanding.

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