Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Regime type and the nature of transition -- Confessional difference -- Modernisation, secularisation and religious economics -- Nationalism and civil religion -- Notes -- 2 Southern Europe: Spain and Greece -- Spain: From Catholic Nationalism to Religious Pluralism -- Political context: the model transition' -- Religious context: from state support to interest group -- Privileging the majority religion? -- On the road to religious liberty -- Greece: two steps forward, one step back? -- Political context: from the colonels to new democracy' -- Religious context: religion as pillar of the nation -- Constitutional, legal and institutional privileging' of the Greek Orthodox Church -- Restricting religious minorities? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Central and Eastern Europe: Poland and Bulgaria -- Poland: rebuilding a Catholic society? -- The political context: transition via negotiation -- The religious context: reclaiming God's playground -- Recreating national Catholicism? -- The position of religious minorities -- Bulgaria: the half-hearted pursuit of privilege -- The political context: a silent transition -- The religious context -- Defining the status of the Orthodox Church -- Restricting minority rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The former USSR: Russia and the successor states -- The Russian Federation -- The political context: imperial collapse -- The religious context: the death and rebirth of holy Rus' -- Traditional religions' and the pursuit of recognition -- Handling otherness': regulating religious pluralism -- Sketches from the successor states -- Lithuania -- Latvia -- Georgia -- Armenia -- Kyrgyzstan -- Turkmenistan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Justifying religious recognition' and/or discrimination -- The actors -- The arguments -- (a) Majoritarianism and the national church -- (b) Moral guardianship, unfair competition and the invasion of the sects' -- (c) Stability and the need for order -- (d) Nationalism and doing it our way' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Conclusion: modernisation, conflict, culture and religious liberty -- Regime type and the nature of transition -- Confessional difference -- Modernisation, secularisation and religious economics -- Nationalism and civil religion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- BOOKS, ARTICLES, PAPERS -- JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS.