Historical survey
A Christian country
Hungary has emerged to statehood by its adoption of western Christianity at the end of the first millennium. The foundations of the structure of the Catholic Church were laid by Saint Steven (…)
Religious pluralism
After the Turkish wars (at the end of the 17th century) ethnic Hungarians became a minority in the Kingdom of Hungary. While Serbs in the south remained Orthodox, large numbers of Romanians in (…)
Limits to religious freedom
After the trauma of the secession of Hungary (after World War I), national conservative forces dominated the political and the cultural landscape, cutting back some of the liberal legislation of (…)
Religion in a modern society
Hungary played a notable role in the Ostpolitik of the Holy See as an experimental test case; the "détente" between church and state did have beneficial effects but meant painful compromises as (…)