This book discusses the motivating factors in papal-communist relations and chronicles the major events in detente policy in the Soviet Union and those countries of Eastern Europe where the Catholic Church is at least nominally the religion of 30" or more of the population.
This pioneering examination of the relationship between religion and modernization in the U.S.S.R. brings together the work of top international specialists in the fields of Soviet religions and intellectual history.
This unique account of Russia's encounter with Catholicism from the medieval period to the present provides fascinating insights into... Læs mere
The book reveals the nexus between religion and politics today and shows that we live in an interdependent world where one global civilization is emerging and where the world’s peoples are continuing to coalesce around a series of values that contain potent Western overtones.