@article{1378143,
      recid = {1378143},
      author = {Royce, Mark R.,},
      title = {The political theology of European integration : comparing  the influence of religious histories on European policies  /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This book traces the connections between diverging postwar  European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions  to argue that supranational integration originates from  Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to  integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism. Royce  supports this thesis through a rigorously supported  historical narrative, arguing that sixteenth-century  theological conflicts generated seventeenth-century  constitutional solutions, which ultimately effected the  political choices both for and against integration during  the twentieth century. Beginning with a survey of all  ecclesiastical laws of seventeen West European countries  and concluding with a full discussion of the Brexit vote  and emerging alternatives to the EU, this examination of  the political theology surrounding the European Union will  appeal to all scholars of EU politics, modern theology,  religious sociology, and contemporary European history.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1378143},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53447-3},
}