Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 15 (2024)

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71379-6
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

This volume presents a comparative study on the pivotal role of religion in social transformation of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the past three decades. Organized into four thematic sections, it examines divergent patterns of religiosity and non-religious worldviews, secularization, religious presence in public life, and processes of identity formation. Comparison across the countries in the CEE reveals the absence of uniform and synchronic dynamics in the region. The geopolitical and cultural heterogeneity, the need to understand post-1989 social processes in the context of a much longer historical development of the region, and the importance of incorporating religious factors — are central to all contributions in this volume.

Contributors are: Mikhail Antonov, Olga Breskaya, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi, Jan Kanák, Alar Kilp, Zsófia Kocsis, Tobias Koellner, Valéria Markos, András Máté-Tóth, Jerry G. Pankhurst, Gabriella Pusztai, Ringo Ringvee, Ariane Sadjed, Marjan Smrke, Miroslav Tížik, David Václavík, Jan Váne, Marko Vekovic, and Siniša Zrinšcak.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Breskaya, Olga

Zrinšcak, Siniša

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Über Autor(innen)

Olga Breskaya, PhD in Sociology, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova. Recently she co-edited the volumes Religious Freedom. Thinking Sociologically (with G. Giordan and S. Zrinšcak; Routledge 2023) and Religious Freedom: Social Scientific Approaches (with R. Finke and G. Giordan; Brill 2021).

Siniša Zrinšcak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His recent publications include Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Politics, Religion, and Human Rights (co-edited with G. Giordan; Springer 2020), Well-Being and Extended Working Life. A Gender Perspective (co-edited with T. Addabo, P. Carney, Á. Ní Léime and J. Spijker; Routledge 2022), and Changes in the Value System in Democratic Croatia ([Katolicki bogoslovni fakultet and Kršcanska sadašnjost], in Croatian; co-edited with J. Baloban, S. Migles, and K. Nikodem; 2023).