Expanding Religion: Religious Revival in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

✍ Scribed by Miklós Tomka

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Series: Religion and Society, 47
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In sharp contrast to Western developments post-communist Europe experienced a spectacular religious revival after 1989. Previously marginalized believers and churches became accepted and active participants of social life. Several successive surveys of three international projects studied religious revival and variations of religiosity, the social image of religious people and their specific private and public behaviour in the period between 1991 and 2008. The present volume is the first ever cross-national and cross-denominational comparative analysis of these results.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
1. Does religion in Eastern and Central Europe matter?
The religious situation in Eastern and Central Europe - to whom is it important?
Religious growth - the two sides of the coin
What do we mean when we talk about religion, being religious? - The religious system
What are our sources of information concerning religiosity and churches in Eastern and Central Europe?
2. Public opinion on religion and the churches
Notions of religion and religious people
Public opinion on the churches
3. Revival? Crisis? Metamorphosis? - Versions of religious change
What do people think of religious change?
Ideological identity - Do people consider themselves to be religious?
Faith and beliefs
Belief in God
Images of God
Belief in Jesus and other beliefs
Traditional church belief and folk beliefs
Religious or believer?
Conclusion: Pluralism of beliefs
Religious worship - the act of turning towards the sacred
Celebrations of turning points in life
Church attendance
Prayer
Religious objects
Folk and heterodox religious practices
Conclusion: The permanence of worship
The hidden dimension of religion: experiences and emotions
4. A role of religion in the organization of life
The meaning of life
Who are satisfied and happy?
Religion and morality
Human relations
Family and child
Endorsement of the family
Option for children
Male and female roles
Responsibility for the elderly
Social commitments
Religion, politics, public affairs
Work ethics
Religion and nation
5. Assortments of religion
Religion in the succession of generations
Religiosity in the structure of society
Denominations
Case study 1: Latvia
Case study 2: Czech Republic
Case study 3: Slovakia
Case study 4: Hungary
Spatial structure, geographical distribution
6. The prospects for religious development
Bibliography
Index of Names

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