Religion and Politics: East-West Contrasts from Contemporary Europe: East-West Contrasts from Contemporary Europe

In nine essays, European academics examine how politics and democracy are affecting religion today. Some of the topics they examine include: change in European religions; the Catholic Church and democracy in modern Europe; religion and media domination in Ireland; Protestants in an Irish Catholic state; the fall and rise of the Greek Catholic religion in Poland; Catholics in Poland; the Church of England in the Thatcher period; and the state of religion in modern Britain.