Religion and Political Change in Europe: Past and Present
Preface
A.K. Isaacs

Introduction
A. Cimdina

I. Religion and States from Ancient Rome to the Renaissance

Imperial Princesses in the Imperial Cult in Ancient Rome
Maria José Hidalgo de la Vega

Religion, Women and Politics in Imperial Rome (4th-5th century A.D.)
M. Rodriguez Gervas – D.Perez Sanchez

The Role of the Mendicant Orders on Political Life of Castile and León in the Later 13th Century
R.Rios

The Impact of Religious Orders on Political Change in Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe (13th-15th centuries)
R. Averkorn

Religion and Identity in Early Modern Ireland
S.Ellis

II. Religion, Citizenship and Empire in Europe in Modern Times

Definitions of Citizenship and the Sacramental Systems of Churches
E.Brambilla

Power Elites and Royal Government in the Spanish Netherlands during the Last Phase of the Eighty Years’ War (1621-1648)
R.Vermeir

The Elect Nation of God: England, New England, and Hungary in the 16th and 17th Centuries
C.Lévai

German Parsons and the Latvian Peasant Enlightenment between the 18th and the 19th Century
M.Grudula

The National Movement in Latvia in the 19th Century: a Nation as a Quasi-Religion
D.Hanovs

III. Religion, Politics and Gender in the 20th and the 21st century

The Orthodox Church of Latvia in the 1920s and 1930s
J.Sidjakov

Church and State Relations during the Communist Regime. The Case of Romania
I.M.Bucur

Church, State and Family in Communist Poland
Natali Stegmann

Religious and Ethnic Diversity in the Second Half of the 20th Century: War and Political Changes in the Territories of Former Yugoslavia
M.Klemencic

Geography, Religion and Gender in the Construction of Urban Space
T.Mosquete

Construction of Masculinities in Contemporary Christianity
V.Teraudkalns

Religion, Sexuality and the Eros/Agape Dichotomy
J.Vejs

Religion in Latvia: from Atrophy to Rebirth
J.Dreifelds