Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Maps vii
4. List of Tables viii
5. Foreword ix
6. Preface xiii
7. Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe 1
8. Religion in Urban Everyday Life: Shaping Modernity in Łódź and Manchester, 1820–1914 35
9. Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary 61
10. Searching for a “Fourth Path”: Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism 85
11. The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945–1948 111
12. Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Poland 129
13. Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 159
14. From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania 191
15. Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants 217
16. State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the “Remaking” of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria 245
17. Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962–1989 269
18. On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West 293
19. Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity 329
20. List of Contributors 373
21. Index 375