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Hennig, Anja. "Between Conflict and Cooperation: Religion and Politics in Europe." Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture, vol. 20/21, no. 4/1, Dec. 2015, pp. 121-128. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=110957184&site=eds-live.

This article gives insight to Europe’s relationship with christianity. It examines the way that Europeans created and have maintained a secular world view in relation to politics. It begins by mentioning the establishment of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the secular elite of the Roman Empire. The article goes on to the detail the rocky relationship shared between European politics and christianity into the modern era.

This article will be very useful to me because I want to explore the decline (or increase) in levels of religiosity in western civilization. “Between Conflict and Cooperation: Religion and Politics in Europe” will help me to get a much more thorough understanding of the space that religion occupies in Europe, both now and in the past. This article provides more than sufficient information about the historical background of religion and politics in Europe. Information that i will use to support my theory that religion is on the decline in Europe.