1st Edition
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe
402 Pages
by
Central European University Press
402 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
List of Maps, List of Tables, Foreword, Preface, Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe, Religion in Urban Everyday Life: Shaping Modernity in ?ód? and Manchester, 1820–1914, Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary, Searching for a “Fourth Path”: Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism, The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945–1948, Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Polans, Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania, Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants, State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the “Remaking” of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria, Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962–1989, On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West, Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Brian Porter-Szucs is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.
