The interaction of narratives concerning Islam and Christianity in (geo)political discourses (1960-2020)

This project studies the dominant (geo)political discourses and identity constructions related to religion, on the one hand of the (Christian) Western world and on the other hand of the Islamic world, and that in the second half of the twentieth and the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It will, by means of discourse analysis, try to explain those discourses from an active interaction between the identification with and the deployment of narratives concerning religion, interreligious conflict, interreligious peace and interreligious historical events. In it, particular attention will be paid to concepts such as secularization, desecularization, and deterritorialization of religion, and to how and to what extent this interaction of discourse and identity constructs manifests itself in Europe and in the geopolitics of Europe and its surrounding regions.