Brian Porter-Szucs is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.

The strongest aspect of the volume is that it problematizes such clichés in connection with Eastern Europe, as for instance the image of homogenous Catholic Poland and the church-destroyer communist Romania. The methodological approaches are various, and often multidisciplinary: Galia Valtchinova applies anthropological viewpoints; the inquiry by Katharina Kunther involves theological aspects and the essay by Bruce R. Berglund intersects with geography. In the contributions which focus on “bottom up” topics, like the essays of Natalia Schlikhta, David Doellinger and Anca Sincan, oral history as a device also plays a role. A valuable volume of thought-provoking contributions. The richness and diversity of the studied topics testifies to the wide range of opportunities in researching Eastern Europe which have not been paid enough attention so far."

• List of Maps, List of Tables, Foreword, Preface, Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe, Religion in Urban Everyday Life: Shaping Modernity in ?ód? and Manchester, 1820–1914, Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary, Searching for a “Fourth Path”: Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism, The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945–1948, Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Polans, Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania, Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants, State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the “Remaking” of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria, Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962–1989, On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West, Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity, List of Contributors, Index

Brian Porter-Szucs is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.

The strongest aspect of the volume is that it problematizes such clichés in connection with Eastern Europe, as for instance the image of homogenous Catholic Poland and the church-destroyer communist Romania. The methodological approaches are various, and often multidisciplinary: Galia Valtchinova applies anthropological viewpoints; the inquiry by Katharina Kunther involves theological aspects and the essay by Bruce R. Berglund intersects with geography. In the contributions which focus on “bottom up” topics, like the essays of Natalia Schlikhta, David Doellinger and Anca Sincan, oral history as a device also plays a role. A valuable volume of thought-provoking contributions. The richness and diversity of the studied topics testifies to the wide range of opportunities in researching Eastern Europe which have not been paid enough attention so far."

• List of Maps, List of Tables, Foreword, Preface, Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe, Religion in Urban Everyday Life: Shaping Modernity in ?ód? and Manchester, 1820–1914, Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary, Searching for a “Fourth Path”: Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism, The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945–1948, Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Polans, Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania, Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants, State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the “Remaking” of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria, Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962–1989, On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West, Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity, List of Contributors, Index

Brian Porter-Szucs is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.

The strongest aspect of the volume is that it problematizes such clichés in connection with Eastern Europe, as for instance the image of homogenous Catholic Poland and the church-destroyer communist Romania. The methodological approaches are various, and often multidisciplinary: Galia Valtchinova applies anthropological viewpoints; the inquiry by Katharina Kunther involves theological aspects and the essay by Bruce R. Berglund intersects with geography. In the contributions which focus on “bottom up” topics, like the essays of Natalia Schlikhta, David Doellinger and Anca Sincan, oral history as a device also plays a role. A valuable volume of thought-provoking contributions. The richness and diversity of the studied topics testifies to the wide range of opportunities in researching Eastern Europe which have not been paid enough attention so far."

• List of Maps, List of Tables, Foreword, Preface, Introduction: Christianity, Christians, and the Story of Modernity in Eastern Europe, Religion in Urban Everyday Life: Shaping Modernity in ?ód? and Manchester, 1820–1914, Christianity, Nation, State: The Case of Christian Hungary, Searching for a “Fourth Path”: Czech Catholicism between Liberalism, Communism, and Nazism, The Roman Catholic Church Navigates the New Slovakia, 1945–1948, Bulwark or Patchwork? Religious Exceptionalism and Regional Diversity in Postwar Polans, Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, From Bottom to the Top and Back: On How to Build a Church in Communist Romania, Human Rights as a Theological and Political Controversy among East German and Czech Protestants, State Management of the Seer Vanga: Power, Medicine, and the “Remaking” of Religion in Socialist Bulgaria, Constructing Peace in the GDR: Conscientious Objection and Compromise among Christians, 1962–1989, On the Ruin of Christendom: Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West, Drafting a Historical Geography of East European Christianity, List of Contributors, Index