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  • TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD PART I. COPING WITH PERSECUTION. Chapter I. Religious Change in Communism and in Post-Communist Reconstruction in Central Europe Chapter II. The Marginalization of Christians in Communism - in Eastern Central Europe Chapter III. The Religious - Non-Religious Dichotomy as A Social Problem. A Case Study PART II. CHURCH, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY Chapter IV. Division of Labour and Cooperation between Church and State in Hungary before the Second World War Chapter V. The Separation of State and Church in the Communist Societies of Eastern Europe. Chapter VI. Religion, Church, State and Civil Society in East-Central Europe. Chapter VII. The contribution of the Churches in the Liberation from Below: on the Nature of the Transition in East-Central-Europe. PART III. RELIGIOUS POLICIES IN HUNGARY - BEFORE AND AFTER 1989 Chapter VIII. Church and Religion in a Communist State 1945-1989. Chapter IX. Changes in Religious and Church Policy after the Collapse of Communism. Chapter X. The Churches and the Church Policy of a Post-Communist Socialist Government. PART IV. SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION - DURING AND AFTER COMMUNISM Chapter XI. The Sociology of Religion in Communist Countries. - Functions and Preconditions before 1989. Chapter XII. The Sociology of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe: Problems of Teaching and Research after the Breakdown of Communism. BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES