Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 15 (2024)

Olga Breskaya, PhD in Sociology, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova. Recently she co-edited the volumes Religious Freedom. Thinking Sociologically (with G. Giordan and S. Zrinščak; Routledge 2023) and Religious Freedom: Social Scientific Approaches (with R. Finke and G. Giordan; Brill 2021). Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His recent publications include Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Politics, Religion, and Human Rights (co-edited with G. Giordan; Springer 2020), Well-Being and Extended Working Life. A Gender Perspective (co-edited with T. Addabo, P. Carney, Á. Ní Léime and J. Spijker; Routledge 2022), and Changes in the Value System in Democratic Croatia ([Katolički bogoslovni fakultet and Kršćanska sadašnjost], in Croatian; co-edited with J. Baloban, S. Migles, and K. Nikodem; 2023).

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Notes on Contributors


 Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction

  Olga Breskaya and Siniša Zrinščak



Part 1

Social Transformation and Varieties of Religious Changes

1 Multiple Post-communisms: The Variability of Religious Change in Central and Eastern Europe

  Miroslav Tížik



2 Religion, Moral Issues, and Politics: Exploring Country Profiles in cee

  Olga Breskaya and Siniša Zrinščak



3 Grief, Resilience and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: A Theoretical Approach

  András Máté-Tóth



Part 2

Secularization Dilemmas and Church-State Relations

4 Is the Secularization Thesis a Helpful Tool for Understanding the Modern Religious History of cee? A Case of the Czech Republic

  David Václavík



5 Religion, Society and the State – Transformations in Three Baltic States since the 1990s

  Ringo Ringvee



6 (Un)Expected Sacred Canopy? Religion, State and Society in the Post-conflict Kosovo

  Marko Veković



Part 3

Orthodoxy and Social and Political Conflicts

7 Serving Caesar to Serve God: Russian Orthodoxy and the Construction of the Narrative of Russia in a Time of War

  Alar Kilp and Jerry G. Pankhurst



8 The Russian Orthodox Church and the Deep Constitution of Russia

  Mikhail Antonov



9 Religion and Politics in Contemporary Russia: Entanglements, Identity Making and Nation Building

  Tobias Koellner



10 Vladimir Putin as a Challenge to a Sociologist of Religion

  Marjan Smrke



Part 4

Religions and Identities

11 Catholic School and Religious Identity Formation: A Case Study from the Czech Context

  Jan Kaňák and Jan Váně



12 Types of Student Work and Religiosity among Higher Education Students in Central and Eastern Europe

  Valéria Markos, Zsófia Kocsis, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi, and Gabriella Pusztai



13 Jewish Identity Formation after Leaving Central Asia

  Ariane Sadjed



Index