Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 15 (2024)

Olga Breskaya, PhD in Sociology, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova. Recently she co-edited the volumes Religious Freedom. Thinking Sociologically (with G. Giordan and S. Zrinščak; Routledge 2023) and Religious Freedom: Social Scientific Approaches (with R. Finke and G. Giordan; Brill 2021).Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His recent publications include Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Politics, Religion, and Human Rights (co-edited with G. Giordan; Springer 2020), Well-Being and Extended Working Life. A Gender Perspective (co-edited with T. Addabo, P. Carney, Á. Ní Léime and J. Spijker; Routledge 2022), and Changes in the Value System in Democratic Croatia ([Katolički bogoslovni fakultet and Kršćanska sadašnjost], in Croatian; co-edited with J. Baloban, S. Migles, and K. Nikodem; 2023).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsChange and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe: An IntroductionOlga Breskaya and Siniša ZrinščakPart 1Social Transformation and Varieties of Religious Changes1 Multiple Post-communisms: The Variability of Religious Change in Central and Eastern EuropeMiroslav Tížik2 Religion, Moral Issues, and Politics: Exploring Country Profiles in ceeOlga Breskaya and Siniša Zrinščak3 Grief, Resilience and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: A Theoretical ApproachAndrás Máté-TóthPart 2Secularization Dilemmas and Church-State Relations4 Is the Secularization Thesis a Helpful Tool for Understanding the Modern Religious History of cee? A Case of the Czech RepublicDavid Václavík5 Religion, Society and the State – Transformations in Three Baltic States since the 1990sRingo Ringvee6 (Un)Expected Sacred Canopy? Religion, State and Society in the Post-conflict KosovoMarko VekovićPart 3Orthodoxy and Social and Political Conflicts7 Serving Caesar to Serve God: Russian Orthodoxy and the Construction of the Narrative of Russia in a Time of WarAlar Kilp and Jerry G. Pankhurst8 The Russian Orthodox Church and the Deep Constitution of RussiaMikhail Antonov9 Religion and Politics in Contemporary Russia: Entanglements, Identity Making and Nation BuildingTobias Koellner10 Vladimir Putin as a Challenge to a Sociologist of ReligionMarjan SmrkePart 4Religions and Identities11 Catholic School and Religious Identity Formation: A Case Study from the Czech ContextJan Kaňák and Jan Váně12 Types of Student Work and Religiosity among Higher Education Students in Central and Eastern EuropeValéria Markos, Zsófia Kocsis, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi, and Gabriella Pusztai13 Jewish Identity Formation after Leaving Central AsiaAriane SadjedIndex