Religion, State & Society is a unique source of information and analysis for individuals and institutions involved in a wide variety of ways with communist and formerly communist countries. It is still the only English-language academic publication devoted to issues of church, state and society in these countries. Responding to the new situation in the USSR and Eastern Europe, the journal explores its conviction that the experiences of religious communities in their encounter with communism will be central to the evolution of the new Europe and of the Western world in general in the next century. Tackling social, cultural, ethnic, political and ecclesiological problems is in future going to be a cooperative effort, in a way hitherto impossible, involving the religious communities of both East and West. Religious communities in Western Europe, the USA, Australasia and Latin American will have much to learn from the way in which their counterparts in the East have tackled such problems in the past, and vice versa. Religion, State & Society monitors the experiences of religious communities in communist and former communist countries throughout the world. However, it also serves as a forum for debate on issues of global concern, with input from both East and West. The journal's agenda thus includes the theoretical and practical consequences of the East-West encounter in the context of these wider areas of mutual concern. |