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Generations and Atheism : Patterns of Response to Communist Rule among Different Generations and Countries

The communist systems in Central and Eastern European countries had some common features, with atheism as the cornestone of the political rule, but they varied in many different aspects. Both political pressure and social change brought about not only the rise of secularism but also the rise of religiosity, particularly in the 1980s. However, the course of changes and impact of atheism on generations were quite different in each country. That was proved by the empirical analysis which is divided in two parts. First, four countries are focused (Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia) showing three distinctive responses to communist rule. Second, on the basis of the EVS 1999 data for 14 post-communist countries, three groups of countries are differentiated according to religious and non-religious legacies and different generational impacts of the communist system.

Atheism; Central and Eastern Europe; communism; generations; social change

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