Kulturka

Religion and identities in transition

There are a lot of questions concerning the relationship between
identity and religion. How does religion influence social identity? Has
it a formative role for the structures and meanings of life courses?
What aspects of religion and in what circumstances, contribute to
identity? How can we understand religious identity? Why and how do
people change their religious identities? What are the directions of the
changes of identity in Central and Eastern Europe? What about in other
regions? Does religion continue to be an element of national identity?
If so, in what forms?

The authors of these nineteen chapters, organized into four parts of the
book, coming from many different countries, interested in different
phenomena and having a different theoretical background and perspective,
try to answer many of the above questions.

• author: Małgorzata Zawiła, Irena Borowik