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This interdisciplinary volume explores religious conversion and nonreligion in 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe, examining how emerging nations, empire inheritors, and socialist projects mobilized religious politics to manufacture consent while destabilizing the very communities they sought to control.
Drawing on original archival research and fieldwork, the book analyzes the interdependence of collective and individual identities, integrating state-driven atheization into the study of conversion. It traces conviction-driven, coercive, strategic, and nonreligious shifts, situating them within broader processes of state formation, social engineering, and political power. Rich in empirical material, the volume offers conceptual tools and comparative frameworks to understand the entanglement of religion, nonreligion, and power during political upheaval.
Intended for scholars and practitioners in history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, and related fields, this book provides valuable insights for those studying the dynamics of religion and nonreligion in politically complex contexts.
Contents
Introduction. Crossing Boundaries: Conversions in Central and Eastern Europe in the Long 20th Century Section 1: Conversion, Conviction, and Faith 1. Lev Gillet's "Great Object of Intercession": Ecumenism and Conversion Between France, Russia, and Ukraine 2. Conversions from, to, and Within the Evangelical Faith in the Late USSR (1950-1980s) 3. The Politics of Conversion: Institutional Strategies of the Serbian Orthodox Church Toward Religious Alternatives in the 20th Century 4. "Conversion Without Crisis?": Inquiry into Religious Narratives of the Bahá'í Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina Section 2: Conversion, Coercion, and Protection 5. Muslim Conversions to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the Modern Balkans 6. Religious Need or Survival Strategy?: Conversions Among Jews in Occupied Kraków and Other Localities in the Kraków District in 1939-1945 7. The Reaction of the Holy See to the Issue of the Forced Conversion of Orthodox Serbs to Catholicism in the Independent State of Croatia 8. Fashioning the Orthodox: Converting Greek Catholics to the Romanian Orthodox Church After the State-Enforced Union Section 3: Conversion, Power, and Unrest 9. Religion as Social Protest: The Orthodox Movement in Podkarpatská Rus (1919-1938) 10. Converts and the Rise of Nationalism Among German Evangelicals and Orthodox Slovenians in Interwar Slovenia 11. Sacralizing Ethnos: "Conversions" to Ethnoreligiosity in Eastern Europe Section 4: Conversion, Communism, and Atheization 12. "Converting" to Atheism and Tackling Religious Indifference in the Early Soviet Union 13. Yugoslav Partisans in Need of Catholic Clergy: The Vatican and the Issue of the Yugoslav Partisans on the Italian Peninsula in 1944 14. Speeding up Atheization in the GDR: Research Serving Worldview Change 15. Between Political Exigency and Humanitarian Service: Catholic (Non-)Converts in the Shaping of Socialist Funeral Culture in Hungary, 1970-1989
