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Communal Conflict: An Introduction The current spate of communal violence - violence among groups that define themselves by differences in their respective religions, ethnicity, language or race - is one [...]

How an observer evaluates the place or prospects of religion in the modern world depends very much on their point of observation. Here we will examine the traditional 'Western' perspective, [...]

Introduction As the ideological influence of Marxism is disintegrating in most regions of Eastern Europe, evangelical missions from the West, particularly from North America, have proliferated. New strategic political and [...]

I. History and Religious Demography The Bulgarian state was founded in 681 C.E. Until the mid-ninth century, the population was pagan, with two different polytheistic strands: the Bulgars or proto-Bulgarians [...]

Introduction The successor states of the former Yugoslavia are Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. After 1992 only two of them remained in a federal union that still bears [...]

The religious situation in Romania defies any brief or simple analysis. In the 1980's the religious communities, both the registered and the unregistered, found themselves in the midst of a [...]

I. The Ambiguity of the Research on the Orthodox Church in Romania There are many entry points into the current religious and political situation of Romania. Both old and new [...]

This essay seeks to describe, from a historical perspective, the current situation and intricate problems of mission and proselytizing in Hungary. One cannot, however, isolate the churches' missionary activities and [...]

I. Slovak History: A Witness to Violent Proselytism and Intolerance 'It is unbelievable how many spiritual movements in the current of history have passed across the real life stage of [...]

I. Historical and Sociopsychological Context An understanding of proselytism in the Polish context requires an overview of historical facts that have shaped the contemporary role of religion in the country. [...]

Political Ideology as a Secular Religion Sociologists of religion define secularization as the sum total of the process of weakening of the social meaning of religion, as a process of [...]

In a series of projects conducted over the past decade, the Law and Religion Program of Emory University in Atlanta has explored the religious sources and dimensions of human rights [...]