Churches, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism

Dr. Lavinia Stan is Jules Leger Research Chair in Political Science and Coordinator of the Public Policy and Governance Program at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. A comparative politics specialist, she has done work and published mainly on transitional justice, as well as religion and politics, with a focus on post-communist settings. Some of her most recent publications include (co-edited with Cynthia Horne) Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and (co-edited with Nadya Nedelsky) Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from Twenty-Five Years of Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Dr. Lucian Turcescu is Professor, Graduate Program Director, and past Chair (2011-2016) of the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University Montreal, Canada. He has done research, published, and taught in several areas, including early Christianity, religion and politics, and ecumenism. Some of his recent publications include (co-edited with L. Stan) Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania (2017), (co-authored with L. Stan) Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe (2011).

Part 1: Central Europe.- 1 Catholic Church, Stasi, and Post-Communism in Germany.- 2 Lustration and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland.- 3 Religion and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic.- 4 Slovakian Catholics and Lutherans Facing the Communist Past.- Part 2: The Balkans.- 5 The Romanian Orthodox Church Rewriting Its History.- 6 Bulgaria: Revealed Secret, Unreckoned Past.- 7 Transitional-Unconditional Justice? The Case of the Catholic Church of Albania.- Part 3: The Baltic Republics.- 8 Comfortably Numb: The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church during and after the Soviet Era.- 9 The Lutheran and Roman Catholic Churches in Latvia.- 10 The Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania and Its Soviet Past.- Part 4: Former Soviet Republics in Europe.- 11 The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Communist Past.- 12 Restorative Justice and Orthodox Church in Belarus.- Conclusion.