Publication details
Twenty Years After: Secularization and Desecularization in Central and Eastern Europe
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Conference |
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| Description | The collapse of communism and the radical social changes that Central and Eastern Europe societies have undergone in the last twenty years have been accompanied equally radical religious changes. In contrast to the communist period, religion in general entered the public space, and the revitalization of religion has become a widely discussed social topic. At the same time, although not uncontroversially, the majority of Central and Eastern European societies pursued the democratic norm of separation of Church and state and legislation safeguarding the rights of minority religions. Sociological research has also pointed out other not easily understandable trends, such as the individualization and privatization of religion, the growth of spirituality, and a religious decline in some of countries, etc. Both desecularization and the revitalization of religion and secularization are pointed to as important tendencies, playing apparently contradictory roles in the theoretical explanations for the current situation in a variety of scientific papers dealing with Central and Eastern European countries. |
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