Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe, 2009 Results from Empirical and Comparative Research Coll. Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

– The Comparative View on Religion and Religiosity.- Why, at all, do we need Religion? Religion and Morality in Post-Communist Europe.- Religious Pluralism and Dimensions of Religiosity: Evidence from the Project Religious and Moral Pluralism (RAMP)..- Religiosity in Europe and in the Two Germanies: The Persistence of a Special Case – as revealed by the European Social Survey.- Religion in Finland and Russia in a Comparative Perspective.- Religiosity in Central and Eastern Europe: Results from the PCE 2000 Survey in Comparison.- Secularization as a European Fate? – Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006.- Religious Oddities: Explaining the Divergent Religious Markets of Poland and East Germany.- Church-State Relations and the Vitality of Religion in European Comparison.- European Exceptionalism: Lazy Churches, Pluralism, Adherence and the Case of the Dutch Religious Cartel.- Religion, Popular Piety, Patchwork Religion.

Gert Pickel, Prof. Dr., Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Institute for Practical Theology, University of Leipzig.
Olaf Müller, research associate at the Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics in Pre-modern and Modern Cultures“ and at the Institute of Sociology at University of Münster.