Expanding Religion

Author： Tomka Miklós

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9783110228168

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110228151

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Keyword：宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

In sharp contrast to Western developments post-communist Europe experienced a spectacular religious revival after 1989. Previously marginalized believers and churches became accepted and active participants of social life. Several successive surveys of three international projects studied religious revival and variations of religiosity, the social image of religious people and their specific private and public behaviour in the period between 1991 and 2008. The present volume is the first ever cross-national and cross-denominational comparative analysis of these results.

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Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

1. Does religion in Eastern and Central Europe matter?

The religious situation in Eastern and Central Europe - to whom is it important?

Religious growth - the two sides of the coin

What do we mean when we talk about religion, being religious? - The religious system

What are our sources of information concerning religiosity and churches in Eastern and Central Europe?

2. Public opinion on religion and the churches

Notions of religion and religious people

Public opinion on the churches

3. Revival? Crisis? Metamorphosis? - Versions of religious change

What do people think of religious change?

Ideological identity - Do people consider themselves to be religious?

Faith and beliefs

Belief in God

Images of God

Belief in Jesus and other beliefs

Traditional church belief and folk beliefs

Religious or believer?

Conclusion: Pluralism of beliefs

Religious worship - the act of turning towards the sacred

Celebrations of turning points in life

Church attendance

Prayer

Religious objects

Folk and heterodox religious practices

Conclusion: The permanence of worship

The hidden dimension of religion: experiences and emotions

4. A role of religion in the organization of life

The meaning of life

Who are satisfied and happy?

Religion and morality

Human relations

Family and child

Endorsement of the family

Option for children

Male and female roles

Responsibility for the elderly

Social commitments

Religion, politics, public affairs

Work ethics

Religion and nation

5. Assortments of religion

Religion in the succession of generations

Religiosity in the structure of society

Denominations

Case study 1: Latvia

Case study 2: Czech Republic

Case study 3: Slovakia

Case study 4: Hungary

Spatial structure, geographical distribution

6. The prospects for religious development

Bibliography

Index of Names