Stefania Palmisano is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin, Italy, and co-editor of Monasticism in Modern Times.Isabelle Jonveaux is Lecturer of Religious Studies at the Universities of Graz and Linz, Austria, and co-editor of Monasticism in Modern Times.Marcin Jewdokimow is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and acting Head of the Department of 20th and 21st Century Culture in the Institute of Classical and Cultural Studies at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland. He is the co-editor of A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders: Zooming in on Monasteries.

• 1. Introduction 2. Changes in religious life since the 1970s in quantitative terms – situation in the CEE countries in the context of global transformations 3. Clericalisation and the search for identity in Roman Catholic religious institutes in Poland at the turn of the 21st century 4. Female religious congregations in Poland in the face of changes from Communism to the transformation period (1945–2000) 5. The economy of Polish monasteries: Between the charismatic and routinisation stage 6. The reinvention of tradition: The moral economy of monastic life in the Czech Republic 7. New Monastic Communities in Poland 8. The presence of religious orders in Hungarian society 9. Orthodox monasteries as pilgrimage sites in contemporary Russia