This volume's primary aim is to explore, in a comparative perspective, how churches and religious discourses have been involved in the processes of change that have come about in eastern and central Europe in recent times, and with what consequences and what prospects. Historians, geographers, philologists and theologians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on that area and period, with particular reference to Latvia, while other specialists examine the ways in which religion and politics have intertwined in other times and places, from antiquity to the present.
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