Expanding Religion : Religious Revival in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

In sharp contrast to Western developments post-communist Europe experienced a spectacular religious revival after 1989.

Previously marginalized believers and churches became accepted and active participants of social life.

Several successive surveys of three international projects studied religious revival and variations of religiosity, the social image of religious people and their specific private and public behaviour in the period between 1991 and 2008.

The present volume is the first ever cross-national and cross-denominational comparative analysis of these results.