Religion After Communism.

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  • Author(s): Szostkiewicz, Adam
  • Source:
    Commonweal. 09/24/99, Vol. 126 Issue 16, p17. 3p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      COMMUNISM & religion; WYSZYNSKI, Stefan, 1901-1981; POSTCOMMUNISM; REVOLUTIONS; RELIGION
    • Subject Terms:
      EASTERN Europe
    • Abstract:
      Discusses the status of religion during and after a communist regime. Elimination of religion and process of secularization in communist countries like Soviet Russia, Albania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary; Catholicism in Poland under Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, the primate of Poland; Reactions of churches to the peaceful and democratic revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989; Role of religion in the future of post-Communist societies.