Detlef Pollack, Professor of Sociology of Religion, University of Münster, and Gergely Rosta, Associate Professor in Sociology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest

Detlef Pollack is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Münster University. He is speaker of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Modern und Premodern Cultures" at Münster University. His research focuses on religious change in Western and Eastern Europe and in the US and political culture in Eastern and Central East Europe. His publications include The Role of Religion in Modern Societies (co-edited with Daniel V. A. Olson; Routledge, 2011) and Handbuch Religionssoziologie (Springer, 2017).

Gergely Rosta was Research Fellow at Münster University from 2009 to 2017. He is currently Associate Professor in Sociology at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. His research interests include religious change in Central and Eastern Europe, youth religiosity, and quantitative research methods.

"this book is a jolting "must-read" for all students of religion, especially Religious Studies scholars. The broad lesson gleaned from Pollack and Rosta's multi-layered study is that while we can and should subject theories of secularization to critical examination, findings on the ground keep suggesting that modernity brings with it great challenges to the relevance and vitality of religious life." - Shifa Amina Noor, Reading Religion