8. Marketing Christian Roots
Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon
Steffen Führding [+ ]
Leibniz University Hannover
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Steffen Führding teaches at the Department for the Study of Religion at Leibniz University Hannover. He has published on the history of the study of religion and theoretical debates within the discipline, including Jenseits von Religion (transcript, 2015).
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Steffen Führding considers 'What is Europe?' after the headline of a newspaper article drew his attention - bold and in black letters you could read, that Angela Merkel, German chancellor then and now, was looking for Christian references in the constitutional treaty of the European Union.