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Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced
societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to
play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value
transformations. As part of the REVACERN (Religion and Values in
Central and Eastern Europe Research Network) project - supported by
the EU Sixth Framework Program - more than 70 researchers from 15
countries in the region analyzed and discussed the most important
trends in values, religions and religious communities and presented
their findings in a comparative way. They tested well-known
theories of secularization, nationalism, democracy and pluralism in
the colorful region Central and Eastern Europe. This book
summarizes their most important findings in seven chapters,
addressing religion and its entanglements with geography, values,
nationalism, Orthodoxy, education, legal regulation, civil society,
social networks, new religious movements and new forms of
religiosity. Each chapter also provides a regional overview.
People observe and transgress religious borders when they relate
with faith and other faiths, when they shape communities, when they
make decisions. A group of researchers have joined an inquiry into
the forces of religious closure and openness in present-day Central
and Eastern Europe. The volume is a result of a research community
constituted within the REVACERN project - Religion and Values in
Central and Eastern Europe Research Network, supported by the 6th
framework program of the European Union. Chapters are structured in
three sections, focusing on individual experiences of religion and
spirituality, on religious elites, and on the interaction of
religion with politics. Sociology, political science and history
are triangulated to render a clear understanding of the individual
experiences of religion and secularity, and of the strategic
choices of religious and political elites, taking readers along an
exploration of religious identity and otherness.
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