Table of Contents
List of Maps VII
List of Tables VIII
Foreword Hugh McLeod IX
Preface XIII
Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe Brian Porter-Szucs 1
Religion in Urban Everyday Life: Shaping Modernity in Lódz and Manchester, 1820-1914 Andreas Kossert 53
Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary Paul Hanebrink 61
Searching for a "Fourth Path": Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism Martin C. Putna 85
The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945-1948 James Ramon Felak 111
Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Poland James Bjork 129
Competing Concepts of "Reunification" behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Natalia Shlikhta 159
From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania Anca Sincan 191
Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants Katharina Kunter 217
State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the "Remaking" of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria Galia Valtchinova 245
Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962-1989 David Doellinger 269
On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West Patrick Hyder Patterson 293
Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity Bruce R. Berglund 329
List of Contributors 373
Index 375