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- Explains how civil society (groups such as religious denominations) contributes to transitional justice efforts to address and redress past dictatorial repression
- Ascertains the impact of state-led reckoning programs on religious communities and their members
- Renews the focus on the factors that determine the adoption (or rejection) of efforts to reckon with past human rights abuses in post-communism
Part of the book series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (MPTJ)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Former Soviet Republics in Europe
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Theology, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Lucian Turcescu
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Department of Political Science, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada
Lavinia Stan
About the editors
Lavinia Stan is Jules Leger Research Chair in Political Science and Coordinator of the Public Policy and Governance Program at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. A comparative politics specialist, she has done work and published mainly on transitional justice, as well as religion and politics, with a focus on post-communist settings. Some of her most recent publications include Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future (co-edited with Cynthia Horne, 2019) and Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from Twenty-Five Years of Experience (co-edited with Nadya Nedelsky, 2015).
Lucian Turcescu is Professor, Graduate Program Director, and past Chair (2011-2016) of the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University Montreal, Canada. He has done research, published, and taught in several areas, including early Christianity, religion and politics, and ecumenism. Some of his recent publications include Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania (co-edited with L. Stan, 2017), Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe (co-authored with L. Stan, 2011).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Churches, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism
Editors: Lucian Turcescu, Lavinia Stan
Series Title: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56063-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56062-1Published: 25 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56065-2Published: 26 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56063-8Published: 24 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-3840
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 282
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, European Politics, Politics and Religion, Memory Studies