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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155414503321

Titolo

Focus on religion in Central and Eastern Europe : a regional view / / edited by András Máté-Tóth and Gergely Rosta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-039068-X

3-11-022812-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Religion and Society, , 1437-5370 ; ; Volume 68

Disciplina

200.947

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Europe, Central Religion

Europe, Eastern Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- The Region of Central and Eastern Europe: A Geography and Religious Studies Approach / Máté-Tóth, András / Hajdú, Zoltán -- Religion and Values in Central and Eastern Europe / Polak, Regina / Rosta, Gergely -- Religion and Nation / Tomka, Miklós / Szilárdi, Réka -- Eastern Orthodoxy and Its Churches in Central and Eastern Europe / Kalkandjieva, Daniela -- Church-Related Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe Twenty Years after Political Transition / Pusztai, Gabriella / Farkas, Csilla -- Mapping New Religious Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: Approaching the Problem / Smoczyński, Rafał -- Sociology of Religion and Social Network Based Approaches in North America and Central and Eastern Europe: A Review / Nagy, Gábor Dániel -- Index of Persons

Sommario/riassunto

Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value transformations. As part of the REVACERN (Religion and Values in Central and Eastern Europe Research Network) project - supported by the EU Sixth Framework Program - more than 70 researchers from 15



countries in the region analyzed and discussed the most important trends in values, religions and religious communities and presented their findings in a comparative way. They tested well-known theories of secularization, nationalism, democracy and pluralism in the colorful region Central and Eastern Europe. This book summarizes their most important findings in seven chapters, addressing religion and its entanglements with geography, values, nationalism, Orthodoxy, education, legal regulation, civil society, social networks, new religious movements and new forms of religiosity. Each chapter also provides a regional overview.