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Eduardus (Eddy) Van der Borght
VU University Amsterdam
Abstract
Because of the importance of the increasing integration of European nation states into the European Union, this article describes the influence of this body on the variety of traditional relationships between religions and states within the countries that now form part of it. The contribution focuses on European laws and the Europeanisation of religious organisations within the context of the shift of state to civil society.
Author Biography
Eduardus (Eddy) Van der Borght, VU University Amsterdam
A research fellow in the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, and he holds the Desmond Tutu Chair of Youth, Sport and Reconciliation at the Faculty of Theology at VU University Amsterdam. His main research areas are socio-cultural identities and the unity of the church, ecclesiology and secularisation.
