András Máté-Tóth is the founder of the first Department for the Study of Religion in Hungary, at the University of Szeged. He is the leader of the HUN-REN “Convivence” Religious Pluralism Research Group at the University of Szeged. His main research interests include the mutual interaction between social and religious turns in Central and Eastern Europe and the theoretical interpretation of contemporary religious processes. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Religion in Europe.Kinga Povedák is a research fellow at the HUN-REN “Convivence” Religious Pluralism Research Group and associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged. Her research interests include vernacular religiosity during Socialist times, Christianity and popular music, the musical lifeworlds of Christian Roma communities, and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity.

• Introduction 1. Securitization and the collective victimization – The perspective of Study of Religion 2. Church rhetoric in Hungary since the regime change – A theory-based securitization analysis 3. The Orthodox Church and Russian-Speakers in the Latvian Political Security Discourse 4. Churchification of Muslim religious organizations in South-Eastern Europe and securitization 5. “The Symbol of our Kinship” versus the “Insignia of Our Enslavement” – Struggle for Church’s (In)Dependence amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War 6. Instrumentalised Religion and Securitisation – Possible lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine 7. Religion and Social Progressivism in Poland and Slovakia – towards (De)securitization? 8. Securitization and vernacular securitization of religion in communist Hungary 9. Kosovo and Securitization in the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Operational Code

András Máté-Tóth is the founder of the first Department for the Study of Religion in Hungary, at the University of Szeged. He is the leader of the HUN-REN “Convivence” Religious Pluralism Research Group at the University of Szeged. His main research interests include the mutual interaction between social and religious turns in Central and Eastern Europe and the theoretical interpretation of contemporary religious processes. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Religion in Europe.Kinga Povedák is a research fellow at the HUN-REN “Convivence” Religious Pluralism Research Group and associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged. Her research interests include vernacular religiosity during Socialist times, Christianity and popular music, the musical lifeworlds of Christian Roma communities, and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity.

• Introduction 1. Securitization and the collective victimization – The perspective of Study of Religion 2. Church rhetoric in Hungary since the regime change – A theory-based securitization analysis 3. The Orthodox Church and Russian-Speakers in the Latvian Political Security Discourse 4. Churchification of Muslim religious organizations in South-Eastern Europe and securitization 5. “The Symbol of our Kinship” versus the “Insignia of Our Enslavement” – Struggle for Church’s (In)Dependence amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War 6. Instrumentalised Religion and Securitisation – Possible lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine 7. Religion and Social Progressivism in Poland and Slovakia – towards (De)securitization? 8. Securitization and vernacular securitization of religion in communist Hungary 9. Kosovo and Securitization in the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Operational Code

András Máté-Tóth is the founder of the first Department for the Study of Religion in Hungary, at the University of Szeged. He is the leader of the HUN-REN “Convivence” Religious Pluralism Research Group at the University of Szeged. His main research interests include the mutual interaction between social and religious turns in Central and Eastern Europe and the theoretical interpretation of contemporary religious processes. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Religion in Europe.Kinga Povedák is a research fellow at the HUN-REN “Convivence” Religious Pluralism Research Group and associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged. Her research interests include vernacular religiosity during Socialist times, Christianity and popular music, the musical lifeworlds of Christian Roma communities, and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity.

• Introduction 1. Securitization and the collective victimization – The perspective of Study of Religion 2. Church rhetoric in Hungary since the regime change – A theory-based securitization analysis 3. The Orthodox Church and Russian-Speakers in the Latvian Political Security Discourse 4. Churchification of Muslim religious organizations in South-Eastern Europe and securitization 5. “The Symbol of our Kinship” versus the “Insignia of Our Enslavement” – Struggle for Church’s (In)Dependence amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War 6. Instrumentalised Religion and Securitisation – Possible lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine 7. Religion and Social Progressivism in Poland and Slovakia – towards (De)securitization? 8. Securitization and vernacular securitization of religion in communist Hungary 9. Kosovo and Securitization in the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Operational Code