Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe

Title: Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe
Editors: Brian Porter-Szucs; Bruce R. Berglund
Price: € 70,95 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9786155225666
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 402
Language: English
Publication date: 10 - 02 - 2013
Dimensions: 15.5 x 22.9 cm
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Discipline: Religie & Filosofie
Imprint: CEU Press
Also available as: Hardback - € 159,00

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List of Maps List of Tables Foreword Hugh McLeod Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe Brian Porter-Szucs Religion in Everyday Urban Life: Shaping Modernity in Lódz and Manchester, 1820–1914 Andreas Kossert Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary Paul Hanebrink Searching for a “Fourth Path”: Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism Martin C. Putna The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945–1948 James Ramon Felak Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Poland James Bjork Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Natalia Shlikhta From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania Anca Sincan Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants Katharina Kunter State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the “Remaking” of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria Galia Valtchinova Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962–1989 David Doellinger On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West Patrick Hyder Patterson Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity Bruce R. Berglund List of Contributors Index

Brian Porter-Szucs, Bruce R. Berglund (eds)

Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe

Religious history more generally has experienced an exciting revival over the past few years, with new methodological and theoretical approaches invigorating the field. The time has definitely come for this “new religious history” to arrive in Eastern Europe. This book explores the influence of the Christian churches in Eastern Europe's social, cultural, and political history. Drawing upon archival sources, the work fills a vacuum as few scholars have systematically explored the history of Christianity in the region. The result of a three-year project, this collective work challenges readers with questions like: Is secularization a useful concept in understanding the long-term dynamics of religiosity in Eastern Europe? Is the picture of oppression and resistance an accurate way to characterize religious life under communism, or did Christians and communists find ways to co-exist on the local level prior to 1989? And what role did Christians actually play in dissident movements under communism? Perhaps most important is the question: what does the study of Eastern Europe contribute to the broader study of modern Christian history, and what can we learn from the interpretative problems that arise, uniquely, from this region?

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