Religion in the Public Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
Product details
- ISBN 9783631702031
- Weight: 529g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2022
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This volume presents the outcomes of qualitative research on the meaning of religion in selected CEE regions. In several case studies, we reveal some features of social perception of religion present in verbalized and institutionalized social experiences and practices. We argue these societies develop their own social model of religion, which seems to be largely based on cultural, religious, and historical schemes dating back to the Habsburg Monarchy. They locate religious identity on a continuum with civic identity. Historical diversity may be endorsed as “traditional pluralism” while equality and tolerance is considered unnecessary. Capturing contradicting images of historical and contemporary pluralism may offer new insight into the puzzle of religion and politics in the CEE region.
Zdzisław Mach is Professor of Sociology and the founder of the Institute for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His research interests cover identity issues of nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, (re)constructions of identities, religion and politics in Central-Eastern Europe.
Emilia Moddelmog-Anweiler is researcher at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include issues of social and cultural identities, religion and public discourses in Central Eastern Europe, European politics and migration.
