Religious Identities in Central East Europe during the Age of Totalitarianisms
Volume editor Sebastian Rimestad Volume editor Andriy Mykhaleyko
Hardback (Published)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9783506705358
6.1 x 9.25 inches
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At the end of World War II, many of the societies in East Central Europe experienced a shift from right-wing fascism to left-wing communism. This volume analyses the way religious actors and communities experienced and responded to this ideological shift. The inter-disciplinary volume comprises 13 chapters, highlighting different case studies from Estonia to Croatia and from East Germany to Ukraine. The chapters show how each case provides a unique window into personal, social, and institutional constraints and pathways to deal with the changing political orientation while remaining true to one’s religious convictions. The individual solutions ranged from a creative espousal of the new ideological situation and tacit complicity to more or less covert opposition.
Sebastian Rimestad studied Political Science and Religious Studies in Aberdeen, Tartu, and Erfurt. He works on current developments within the Orthodox Church and the relationship between religion and the modern world.
Andriy Mykhaleyko studied Theology at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His research focuses on Eastern Christianity and the relationship between churches and totalitarianism.
- Volume editor Sebastian Rimestad
- Volume editor Andriy Mykhaleyko
Other Titles in this Series
Der Mut zum Heil
Glaube und Heilung bei Aphrahat, Ephraem und Jakob von Sarug am Beispiel der kanaanäischen Frau (MT 15, 21-28)
Volume 15
The Manifold Faces of the East
Western Images of the Post-Byzantine Christian World in the Age of Reformation
Volume 18
The Representation of Eve and Mary in Selected Russian Icons
Thirteenth to Seventeenth Century
Volume 20
Die rechtliche Stellung der Kirche und der Kampf des Kommunismus gegen die Religion in der U.S.S.R. 1917–1928
Eine theologische Abschlussarbeit aus Riga von 1929
Volume 19
Bischof Janko Šimrak (1883–1946)
Ein Leben für die „Heilige Einheit“ – Leben und Werk unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zwangskonversionen im Ustascha-Staat
Volume 21
Wenn Himmel und Erde sich berühren
Die Eucharistiefeier als spirituelle und kognitive Dimension der Ekklesiologie bei Peter Brunner und Alexander Schmemann
Volume 9
Tattooed and/or Pierced Christians?
A Comparative Analysis of Catholic and Orthodox Perspectives on Body Modification
Volume 24
Perspektiven der Ostkirchenkunde II
Ausgewählte Ansätze evangelischer und katholischer Ostkirchenkundler
Volume 27
Holding Fast to the Mystery of the Faith
Festschrift for Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Volume 10
A History of Dogmatics in the Romanian Orthodox Theology
From the Establishment of Communism to the Challenges of Postmodernity
Volume 16
Perspektiven der Ostkirchenkunde
Ausgewählte Ansätze evangelischer und katholischer Ostkirchenkundler
Volume 13
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