10.17192/mjr.2009.14.3471 Pye, Michael Michael Pye Chris Hann and the "Civil Religion" Group: The Postsocialist Religious Question. Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe Marburg Journal of Religion : Vol 14 No 1 (2009) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2009 socialism europe religious question asia Post-Sozialismus Sozialismus Asien Europa faith Religion Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology 2017-12-14 2015-04-28 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2009/111/3471 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2009-111-34711 https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2009.14.1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2009/111/3471/3471.png 1612-2941 application/pdf As the editor states in the first sentence of Chapter 1 "The title of this volume is of course a conceit. How could there possibly be a single unified ‘religious question’ in all the countries that, until recently, were socialist?" This reviewer agrees with the editor, for indeed there is only a single question, if it is a question, on the new presupposition of "post-socialism". In fact what we find is that the various regions of the old regime, which have in many cases became independent countries, are quite diverse in their religious culture, as indeed they were before the end of the Soviet Union. 1612-2941 Marburg Journal of Religion Vol 14 No 1 (2009)