BUDAPEST – It’s a well-worn contrast: the United States is religious, Europe is secular. Yet, in some respects, this clichéd opposition has actually been reversed recently: religion played virtually no role during the last American presidential elections, while in a range of different European countries major controversies about religion have flared up, suggesting that questions of faith are back at the center of European politics.
布达佩斯——有种老掉牙的对比认为，美国更宗教，而欧洲更世俗。但不久前这种过时的对比在某些方面实际已经遭到了颠覆：上一届美国总统选举中宗教几乎没有占据任何分量，但在不少欧洲国家却突然爆发了与宗教有关的大规模争论，这表明信仰问题重又回到了欧洲政治的核心。