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Postsocialist Romania ranks among the most religious countries of contemporary Europe as shown by longitudinal and cross-sectional studies focused on religious values and behaviors. While the religious practice has strongly increased during the last twenty years many questions can be raised about this religious revival and about the Romanian religious landscape. Is religious revival real or is only an artifact of the comparative research? Are the standard measures used for assessing religiosity valid for the Romanian case or not? Which are the most religious groups in Romanian society and why? And generally how religious landscape looks like and which are the most appropriated tools for its investigation? How can sociology and socio-cultural anthropology and particularly the anthropology of religion enhance our understanding of religious phenomena?

The journal Studia Sociologia announces a special issue that analyzes the recent religious transformations called "Twenty years after the fall of official Atheism: the contemporary Romanian religious landscape". The papers may address the issue in a historical or contemporary perspective. Contributions are welcome from scholars in sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies, history and law that focus on the contemporary Romanian religious landscape and the post-communist transformations.

Topics to be addressed by this thematic issue might include (but not limited to) the following:
. Religion, national identity, and the State
. The dynamics of religious practices and beliefs
. Historical Churches versus New Religions
. Minority religious groups and interdenominational relations
. The dynamics of the New Religious Movements
. Religious associations, networks, and interest groups: sources of solidarity or discord?
. Multiple modernities: arguing Secularization or the Return of the Religious?
. Forms of religious participation: confessions, testimonies, prayer, services and rituals
. Religious conversion: narratives, practices, and values
. Pilgrimages, icons, the cult of Virgin Marry and the Saints
. Apparitions, visions and other presence of the sacred
. New Age and the emerging market for spirituality
. Religious tourism
. Popular magic, and the religious management of well-being
. Missionaries and charismatic leaders
. Religious Fundamentalism and Globalization

NOTE FOR CONTRIBUTORS
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Books:
Abramson, Paul R. and Inglehart, Ronald (1995). Value Change in Global Perspective. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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Giddens, Anthony (1994). Living in a post-traditional society. In U. Beck, A. Giddens and S. Lash (eds.) Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and the Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Oxford: Polity Press, pp. 56-109.
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Beck, Ulrich, Bonss, Wolfgang and Lau, Cristoph (2003). The theory of reflexive modernization: problematic, hypotheses and research programme. Theory, Culture and Society, 20 (2): 1-33.
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