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No Church is monolithic—this is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist countries. The studies confirm that within any religious organization we can expect to find fissures, factions, theological or ideological quarrels, and perhaps even competing interest groups, such as missionary workers, regular clergy versus secular clergy, and sometimes even competing ecclesiastical hierarchies. The main focus of the book rests on the divisions arising within select Christian Churches, as they confront the processes of secularization and atheization. The coverage area includes Russia and the Ukraine, East-Central Europe and South-Eastern Europe. Some chapters focus on individual clergy who challenge the mainstream of their given Church either from a more liberal or from a more conservative perspective, while others deal with the divisive forces impacting the religious organizations.This festschrift to honor Sabrina Ramet’s seminal contribution to the study of religion in the politics of the communist and post-communist world, brings together several generations of scholars from a variety of countries, both those well established in their fields of study as well as young promising academics.
Frank Cibulka is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.Zachary T. Irwin is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University.
IntroductionZachary T. Irwin Patriarch Kirill: Arenas of Leadership and Challenges of the 21st Century Russian Orthodox ChurchJerry G. Pankhurst and Alar Kilp Patriarch Filaret and the Orthodox Church in Soviet and Post-Soviet UkraineKathryn David Radio Maryja and Fr. Rydzyk as a Creator of the National-Catholic IdeologyIreneusz Krzeminski Religious Issues and Church-State Relations in Eastern GermanyRobert F. Goeckel The Priest and the Bishops: Monsignor Tomáš Halík and the Struggle for the Soul of the Czech Roman Catholic ChurchFrank Cibulka One God, One Episcopate, One Nation: The Making of the Public Identity of Catholic Hierarchy in Post-Socialist SlovakiaAgáta Šustová-Drelová A Church on the Margins: Reverend Gábor Iványi and the Hungarian Evangelical FellowshipChristopher P. AdamGheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, the Forgotten Anticommunist DissidentLavinia Stan Global and Local in the Response of Orthodox Churches to the First Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Special Focus on the Case of BulgariaDaniela Kalkandjieva In Defense of Darwin: Is there a Liberal Wing within the Serbian Orthodox Church?Milan VukomanovićCatholic Church in Croatia: Legal Framework and Social FrictionsSiniša Zrinščak and Frane Staničić The Slovene Roman Catholic Church Yesterday and TodayJože Pirjevec The Curious Case of the Macedonian Church: A Survey of the Past and PresentZachary T. Irwin The Derailed Christian Mission: Neoliberal Globalization Claims another Victory in Post-Communist AlbaniaIsa Blumi Reflections on the Role and Functions of Religion in Eastern Europe and ElsewhereSabrina P. Ramet How Does She Know All of This? Sabrina Ramet's Contribution to the Field of Slavic Studies and BeyondAleksander Zdravkovski ConclusionFrank CibulkaAppendix: List of Sabrina Ramet’s PublicationsContributorsIndex