Eastern Christian Religious Communities and Development of Civil Society in the Post- Soviet Space: the Ukrainian Case

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction 1
5. The Catholic Religious Community and Civil Society: Some Theological and Sociological Considerations 5
6. The Catholic Church and Civil Society: An Introduction 27
7. A Note on Religious Political Ideology: The Case of Islam 31
8. The Rise in Political Power of Brazil’s Evangelicals: A Case Study 41
9. Protestant Congregations in Local Civil Societies in Germany 61
10. The Specificities of Relations between the State, Religious Communities and Civil Society in France 99
11. Religion and Modern Politics Understanding the Impact of the Remain and Leave Campaigns, and of Faith Demographics 119
12. Civil Cinderella: religion and civil society in Poland 149
13. Religious Communities in the Shadow of Populist Politics 183
14. Eastern Christian Religious Communities and Development of Civil Society in the Post- Soviet Space: the Ukrainian Case 203
15. Christian Communities, Civil Society and Civic Engagement in East and West: Convergences and Divergences 239
16. The Socio-political Role of the Hermeneutics of Sacred Texts: the example of the Decalogue 287
17. Durkheim, Mauss, and Shils: The Sacred of Civil Society 305
18. Whither Religious Communities? Are They or Are They Not Part of a Political System – and if They Are, What Part of It Do They Belong to? 325
19. Religious Communities and Civil Society in Europe Report on the Final Conference, Rome, 22/23 November 2018 357
20. Bibliography 365
21. Authors and Contributors 369