This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in post-socialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory based on two modes of religiosity, the doctrinal and the imagistic, Vlad Naumescu reveals the mechanisms of reproduction and change that make the local eastern Christian tradition a living tradition of faith.

Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe. Explores the questions How can a Greek Catholic identity be recreated? Can these churches provide a distinctive product for the new religious marketplace?.