A new book that explores Catholic consecrated religious life in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic and Eastern Orthodox monasticism in Russia:
“The Transformation of Religious Orders in Central and Eastern Europe: Sociological Insights” , Routledge, 2021
Contents
1. Introduction
MARCIN JEWDOKIMOW, ISABELLE JONVEAUX AND STEFANIA PALMISANO
2. Changes in religious life since the 1970s in quantitative terms – situation in the CEE countries in the context of global transformations
MARCIN JEWDOKIMOW
3. Clericalisation and the search for identity in Roman Catholic religious institutes in Poland at the turn of the 21st century
ISABELLE JONVEAUX AND WOJCIECH SADLON
4. Female religious congregations in Poland in the face of changes from Communism to the transformation period (1945–2000)
AGATA MIREK
5. The economy of Polish monasteries: Between the charismatic and routinisation stage
ISABELLE JONVEAUX
6. The reinvention of tradition: The moral economy of monastic life in the Czech Republic
BARBORA SPALOVÁ, MAREK LIŠKA AND TEREZA PICKOVÁ
7. New Monastic Communities in Poland
STEFANIA PALMISANO
8. The presence of religious orders in Hungarian society
EDIT MÁRTA RÉVAY
9. Orthodox monasteries as pilgrimage sites in contemporary Russia
Ksenia Medvedeva