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By Milda Ališauskiene,Ingo W. Schröder

because the finish of kingdom repression opposed to faith, significant approaches have taken position within the previously socialist nations: traditionally dominant church buildings attempt to reassert their place in society, whereas new non secular teams and concepts from quite a few elements of the realm are proliferating. This generates pluralism of non secular groups and person non secular attitudes. spiritual range in Post-Soviet Society offers the 1st number of ethnographies of this new non secular range for Lithuania, a rustic that has an extended heritage of a dominant Catholic Church. The authors exhibit how Catholicism has develop into more and more various and different religions (Charismatic Protestantism, Baltic Paganism, japanese religions and different substitute spiritualities) are claiming their area within the spiritual field.

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