Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience,state repression and divergent paths |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan;2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Meiwa General Hospital, 4-31 Agenaruo-cho Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8186, Japan;1. LGCIE, INSA-Lyon, Université de Lyon, 20, avenue Albert-Einstein, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex, France;2. IUF, Institut universitaire de France, 1, rue Descartes, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France;3. Chair for Nonlinear Analysis and Modelling, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Mathematik-Carrée, Thea-Leymann-Straße 9, 45127 Essen, Germany;4. LaMCoS-CNRS & LGCIE, INSA-Lyon, Université de Lyon, 20, avenue Albert-Einstein, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex, France;1. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 24, 00014, Finland;2. Perception, Action & Cognition Research Group, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00014, Finland;3. Phonetics and speech synthesis research group, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 40, 00014, Finland;1. Department of Surgical Sciences, Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;2. Department of Surgical Sciences, Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;2. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India;3. Chetana-Vikas (Consciousness-Development), Wardha, India |
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| Abstract: | Despite continuing for over two decades, the debate about the nature of the trends in religiosity in post-Communist Eastern Europe remains unresolved: some arguing that these countries are undergoing the same process of secularization as the West, while others insist that the entire region is experiencing a religious revival. Using national sample surveys from the early 1990s to 2007 to examine the change in demographic predictors of religiosity, we show that Catholic and Orthodox countries are experiencing different trends, the first group displaying evidence of secularization and the second of revival, and that these two different trends are likely to derive from the legacies of state repression and the differing abilities of the churches to resist such repression. We argue that the current literature has thus taken a mistakenly general approach, and that the post-Communist region consists of at least two distinct groups of societies with different trends in religiosity. |
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| Keywords: | Religion and religiosity Secularization State repression Postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) |
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