Starting with the emergence of the discipline in the early 20th century, Karady and Nagy chart its development throughout various transformations of Hungarian society: from the liberal Dual Monarchy, through the respective Christian and Stalinist regimes, and culminating in the modern scholarly field today.
Victor Karády is Emeritus Research Director of the French CNRS and Distinguished Research Associate of the History Department of the Central European University in Budapest.Péter Tibor Nagy is University Professor, Head of the Institute of Sociology of Religious Practice at the Budapest John Wesley College in Budapest.
1. Socio-Historical Preliminaries. - 2. Early Sociology Workshops, 1900-1918. - 3. Rise and Fall: From Messianic Expectations to the 'Christian Regime', 1918-1945. - 4. A New Start: Years of Transition After 1945, Sovietization and Its Aftermath. - 5. The Reconstruction of the Social Sciences After Stalinism, 1963-1989. - 6. After Socialism: Comparisons Between the Past and the Present. - 7. Conclusion.