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"Since the crash of communism in Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989, almost everything in the region has changed--from politics to economics to popular culture to religion. There have been new challenges to confront and new dilemmas. This volume examines the political engagement of religious associations in the post-socialist countries of Central and Southeastern Europe, with a focus on disputes about property restitution, revelations about the collaboration of clergy with the communist-era secret police, intolerance, and controversies about the inclusion of religious instruction in the schools. Each of the countries in the region is analyzed with research grounded in on-site interviews, as well as extensive use of literature in local and Western languages"--
List of contents
1. Religious organizations in post-communist Central and Southeastern Europe - An Introduction; Sabrina P. Ramet 2. The Catholic Church in Post-Communist Poland: Polarization, privatization, and decline in influence; Sabrina P. Ramet 3. The Catholic Church in the post-1989 Czech Republic and Slovakia; Milan Reban 4. The Kádár Regime and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy; Krisztián Ungváry 5. The Catholic Church and politics in Slovenia; Egon Pelikan 6. Church and state in Croatia: Legal framework, religious instruction, and social expectations; Sinisa Zrins?ak, Dinka Marinovi? Jerolimov, Ankica Marinovi?, & Branko An?i? 7. The Cross, the Crescent and the Bosnian War: The Legacy of Religious Involvement; Janine Natalya Clark 8. Religion and Democracy in Serbia since 1989: The Case of the Serbian Orthodox Church; Radmila Radi? & Milan Vukomanovi? 9. Islam and Politics in the Serbian Sandzak: Institutionalisation and feuds; Aleksander Zdravkovski 10. The Orthodox Churches of Macedoniaand Montenegro; Aleksander Zdravkovski & Kenneth Morrison 11. The Orthodox Churches and Democratization in Romania and Bulgaria; Lavinia Stan & Lucian Turcescu 12. Religion and Politics among Albanians of Southeastern Europe; Isa Blumi Afterword; Robert F. Goeckel
About the author
Branko An?i?, Sociologist, Institute for Social Research, Croatia Isa Blumi, Senior Research Fellow, Leipzig University, Germany Janine Natalya Clark, Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK Robert Goeckel, Professor, State University of New York, USA Ankica Marinovi?, Scientific Researcher, Institute for Social Research, Croatia Dinka Marinovi? Jerolimov, Scientific Advisor, Institute for Social Research, Croatia Kenneth Morrison, Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University, UK Egon Pelikan, Associate Professor, University of Primorska, Slovenia Radmila Radi?, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Recent History of Serbia Milan Reban, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of North Texas, USA Lavinia Stan, Associate Professor, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Lucian Turcescu, Professor, Concordia University, Canada Krisztián Ungváry, Researcher, Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Hungary Milan Vukomanovi?, Full Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia Aleksander Zdravkovski, Ph.D. candidate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Sini a Zrin ?ak, Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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“The book examines how religious associations, societies and governments have reacted to and function in the new post-1989 political, legal and socio-economic environment … . The wealth of information provided by the authors is vast, and paints a clear picture of the differences in the ways in which religious institutions adapted to post-1989 challenges. … the volume presents a much needed examination of the changes in the religious landscape after the collapse of communism in Central and southeastern Europe.” (Tamara Pavasovic Trost, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, August, 2016)
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"The book examines how religious associations, societies and governments have reacted to and function in the new post-1989 political, legal and socio-economic environment ... . The wealth of information provided by the authors is vast, and paints a clear picture of the differences in the ways in which religious institutions adapted to post-1989 challenges. ... the volume presents a much needed examination of the changes in the religious landscape after the collapse of communism in Central and southeastern Europe." (Tamara Pavasovic Trost, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, August, 2016)
