Religion and Political Change in Europe: Past and Present
Preface
A.K. Isaacs
p. VII
Introduction
A. Cimdina
XI
Religion and States from Ancient Rome to the Renaissance
Imperial Princesses in the Imperial Cult in Ancient Rome
Maria José Hidalgo de la Vega
1
Religion, Women and Politics in Imperial Rome (4th-5th century A.D.)
M. Rodriguez Gervas – D.Perez Sanchez
11
The Role of the Mendicant Orders on Political Life of Castile and León in the Later 13th Century
R.Rios
21
The Impact of Religious Orders on Political Change in Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe (13th-15th centuries)
R. Averkorn
33
Religion and Identity in Early Modern Ireland
S.Ellis
57
Religion, Citizenship and Empire in Europe in Modern Times
Definitions of Citizenship and the Sacramental Systems of Churches
E.Brambilla
75
Power Elites and Royal Government in the Spanish Netherlands during the Last Phase of the Eighty Years’ War (1621-1648)
R.Vermeir
87
The Elect Nation of God: England, New England, and Hungary in the 16th and 17th Centuries
C.Lévai
103
German Parsons and the Latvian Peasant Enlightenment between the 18th and the 19th Century
M.Grudula
119
The National Movement in Latvia in the 19th Century: a Nation as a
Quasi-Religion
D.Hanovs
131
Religion, Politics and Gender in the 20th and the 21st century
The Orthodox Church of Latvia in the 1920s and 1930s
J.Sidjakov
147
Church and State Relations during the Communist Regime. The Case of
Romania
I.M.Bucur
161
Church, State and Family in Communist Poland
Natali Stegmann
177
Religious and Ethnic Diversity in the Second Half of the 20th Century: War and Political Changes in the Territories of Former Yugoslavia
M.Klemencic
195
Geography, Religion and Gender in the Construction of Urban Space
T.Mosquete
209
Construction of Masculinities in Contemporary Christianity
V.Teraudkalns
223
Religion, Sexuality and the Eros/Agape Dichotomy
J.Vejs
233
Religion in Latvia: from Atrophy to Rebirth
J.Dreifelds
241
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