Religion and state in the candidate countries to the European Union--issues concerning religion and state in Hungary. From: Sociology of Religion | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Schanda, Balazs | COPYRIGHT 2003 Association for the Sociology of Religion. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Cyprus, Malta, and eight former Socialist Central-European countries are about to join the European Union. This will result in a slight change in the religious constitution of the enlarged Union as Muslims are hardly present and the proportion of Catholics is higher (and Protestants lower) in the candidate countries than in the member states. The "new democracies" have elaborated new systems of Church-State relations. Some have followed a two-tier system, differentiating between traditional...

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