MODIFICATIONS IN THE RELIGIOUS FIELD OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the current situation of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. The main question is whether the transformation processes in the former Communist countries are following lines of development comparable to those in the West, or whether completely new patterns of development will emerge in these countries. In order to show how church and religion developed in Central and Eastern Europe different religious dimensions are separated and the interconnections between them examined. The four religious dimensions distinguished are personal religiousness, personal church adherence, impersonal church adherence and occultism . The author concludes that the situation of church and religion in Central and Eastern Europe has undergone a dramatic change since the end of the Soviet Empire. At this point of time it cannot be said whether or not processes of a growing differentiation between the distinguished religious dimensions are taking place as they are doing in Western Europe.

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