Religion and Politics in Post-Socialist Central and Southeastern Europe: Challenges since 1989

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Contents
ListofTables ix
PrefaceandAcknowledgments x
NotesonContributors xi
1 ReligiousOrganizationsinPost-CommunistCentral
andSoutheasternEurope:AnIntroduction 1
SabrinaP.Ramet
2 TheCatholicChurchinPost-CommunistPoland:
Polarization,Privatization,andDeclineinInfluence 25
SabrinaP.Ramet
3 TheCatholicChurchinthePost-1989CzechRepublic
andSlovakia 53
MilanReban
4 TheKádárRegimeandtheSubduingoftheRoman
CatholicHierarchy 86
KrisztiánUngváry
5 TheCatholicChurchandPoliticsinSlovenia 115
EgonPelikan
6 ChurchandStateinCroatia:LegalFramework,Religious
Instruction,andSocialExpectations 131
SinišaZrinšˇcak,DinkaMarinovic´Jerolimov,AnkicaMarinovic´,
andBrankoAnˇcic´
7 TheCross,theCrescent,andtheWarinBosnia:The
LegacyofReligiousInvolvement 155
JanineNatalyaClark
8 ReligionandDemocracyinSerbiasince1989:TheCaseof
theSerbianOrthodoxChurch 180
RadmilaRadic´andMilanVukomanovic´
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9 IslamandPoliticsintheSerbianSandžak:
InstitutionalizationandFeuds 212
AleksanderZdravkovski
10 TheOrthodoxChurchesofMacedoniaandMontenegro:
TheQuestforAutocephaly 240
AleksanderZdravkovskiandKennethMorrison
11 TheOrthodoxChurchesandDemocratizationinRomania
andBulgaria 263
LaviniaStanandLucianTurcescu
12 ReligionandPoliticsamongAlbaniansofSoutheastern
Europe 286
IsaBlumi
Afterword 314
RobertF.Goeckel
FurtherReading 317
NameIndex 322
SubjectIndex 327
Tables
1.1 ReligiousaffiliationinCentralandSoutheasternEurope
(populationfiguresfromJuly2011;percentagesfrom
censusesof2001–2002) 3
4.1 EpiscopalappointmentsandMinistryoftheInterior
bishopsinoffice,1964–1987 90
4.2 Bishopswhowererecruitedbetween1945and1989as
MinistryoftheInteriorinformants 92
6.1 ReligionandpoliticsinCroatia(%) 147
6.2 Socialexpectationsofreligion’ssocialroleinCroatia(%) 148
6.3 ReligiouscommunitiesinCroatia–socialperceptionand
socialexpectation 148
6.4 ReligionsandfinanceinCroatia 149
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