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