Religion and National Identity in Central and Eastern European Countries: Persisting and Evolving Links
Simona Guglielmi,
Arianna Piacentini
Abstract:The article aims to offer a contribution to a better understanding of the mechanisms underpinning the intertwining of national and religious identity at the individual level in (some) European former communist and socialist countries. It starts by retracing from a historical perspective the place religion occupied during the regimes, then paying attention to how, once politicized and ethnicized by the hand of a new class of ethnopolitical entrepreneurs, religion has become “the hallmark of nationhood.” This ex… Show more
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