Gergely Rosta
Biographic Data
| ID | 575272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gergely Rosta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gergely |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosta |
| SIGNATURE | ROSTA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8796-6048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Students’ climate change emotions, attitudes, and self-efficacy in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
Climate-related emotions, attitudes, and self-efficacy are increasingly recognized as interlinked drivers of adolescents’ pro-environmental behavior, yet evidence on their joint role across cultural contexts remains limited. This study explores the interplay between climate-related emotions, attitudes, and pro-environmental behaviors among secondary school students from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. It is based on previous studies fo…
Pathways from Education for Sustainable Development to pro-environmental behaviour
This cross-national study examines the relationship between secondary school students’ perceived experiences of education for sustainable development, their action competence, and pro-environmental behaviour in Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia. Representative national samples (N = 6477) were analysed using saturated structural equation modelling to test direct and indirect pathways from education for sustainable development to pro-environmental beh…
National Identity, Religion, and Religiosity in Central and Eastern Europe
This paper investigates the complex interrelation between national identity and religion in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), moving beyond binary conceptualizations by integrating multiple forms of national belonging, religiosity, and spirituality. Drawing on data from the Pew Research Center’s Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe survey across 16 post-communist countries, we performed a k-means cluster analysis …
Antisemitism among Muslims in Germany before and after October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023 is regarded as the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Shoah and marks a historical turning point. Since then, the repercussions of this terrorist attack and the subsequent Hamas-Israel war have been intensely debated. Antisemitic and violence-glorifying incidents in certain Muslim-migrant milieus have triggered emotionally charged debates on so-called “Muslim antisemitism.” However, little is known so far about the broader impac…
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary
Over the past 15 years, Hungary has undergone a series of political transformations that have had a profound impact on higher education. The government has begun to strengthen its loyal right-wing conservative academic regime, which helps to propagate its neo-conservative agenda; it has meanwhile restructured and steadily narrowed the scope of higher education and especially of the social sciences, converting most state universities into public i…
Does Home or School Matter More? The Effect of Family and Institutional Socialization on Religiosity
The proportion of people who receive a religious upbringing at home and attend religious educational institutions varies across time and space. It is debatable how effectively various forms of religious socialization contribute to shaping one’s religious identity. In Hungary, the proportion of young people receiving a religious upbringing is declining, but the church-run school sector is growing, which is accompanied by an increase in the proport…
Covid-19 and orientations towards solidarity
Solidarity is core to Europe's societal organisation and was intensively addressed in recent research. Using data collected before and during the lockdown in spring 2020, we examine whether value orientations towards solidarity changed in three countries (Spain, Hungary, and Romania). Before the pandemic, people in Spain expressed higher solidarity than people in Hungary and Romania. Our argument claims that when facing uncertainty, people react …
A Stronghold of Catholicism
Compared to other Western European countries, Italy stands out in its rather high level of religiosity. Weekly church attendance has consistently exceeded the one third mark; confidence in the church has increased slightly; belief in God has remained at a high level; and belief in life after death, and in heaven and hell, has increased. The chapter investigates why both church practice and people’s ties to their faith have remained more or less s…
Macro- and Microsociological Explanations for Differences between Countries
After the individual case studies presented in the previous chapters, the book now investigates whether the results of the individual case analyses can be generalized, which depends on whether they can also be confirmed against the background of a larger sample. A multilevel analysis involving a total of fifty-four countries was therefore carried out. Church attendance and belief in God, as well as indexes of individual and church religiosity, we…
Reflections on the Concept of Religion
There is no definition of religion that is universally valid and generally accepted in religious studies. Increasing numbers of scholars of religion see the attempt to define religion as doomed to failure, and therefore do not even try. A concept of religion is, however, indispensable for staking out the subject area which the sociology of religion and religious studies are concerned with. Defining clearly what is meant by religion is necessary n…
South Korea
In South Korea, the processes of rapid modernization after the Second World War were accompanied by an upturn in the religion that has suffered the heaviest losses in Europe: Protestant Christianity. The analysis shows that the rise of Protestantism in South Korea can be attributed to a number of factors. The provision of support networks of solidarity for individuals exposed to the rapid processes of modernization, industrialization, and urbaniz…
Patterns and Determinants of Religious Change in the Modern Period
Chapter 14 does not design a general theory of religious change, but develops a multiple theoretical perspective including various theoretical elements, which are instrumental for explaining religious changes and which can be combined flexibly. In brief, they are: 1. Functional differentiation as a rule stands in a strained relationship to the integrational capacity of religious communities and churches. If, however, religious identities are link…
Reflections on the Concept of Modernity
Part I contains theoretical reflections on the two central concepts of the book: modernity and religion. This chapter on the concept of modernity begins by addressing the main reservations that have been expressed concerning the classic approaches to this concept in sociology. After discussing objections to modernization theory, the chapter presents an outline of a theory of modernity that serves as the basis for the argumentation of the entire b…
Key Questions and Methodological Preliminaries
Chapter 3 outlines the key questions of the book and the methodology that the book uses to deal with these questions. The questions are as follows: 1. To what extent are functional differentiation and religion compatible? 2. How does vertical differentiation affect the religious landscape? 3. Does the increasing diversity of the religious have a positive or a negative effect on the vitality of religious communities, organizations and markets? Is …
Conclusion
The Conclusion to Part II recaps the most important outcomes of the study so far which can be summarized as follows: The decline in the significance of the religious is closely connected to the transformation of its dominant forms. That means assumptions of secularization theory and of individualization theory are not mutually exclusive. It seems that people’s ties to religion and church begin to loosen in the dimension of practice. The theorem o…
Religion and Religiosity in the US
Although the countries of Western Europe are very similar to the US in terms of their social, political, and economic conditions, they differ greatly when it comes to religion. Chapter 10 discusses how these differences can be explained. The empirical analysis shows that, besides the considerable differences in the level of religiosity between the US and Western Europe, there are also surprising similarities in the weakening church ties and relig…
Charismatic, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Movements in Europe, the US, and Brazil
The growth of Evangelical Protestantism and Pentecostalism is widely regarded as a potent argument against the validity of secularization theory. To explain this growth, Chapter 12 draws on theoretical approaches to analysing new social movements, which allows an expansion of the repertoire of explanations concerning religious change and a testing of alternatives to the models provided by secularization theory. To explain the worldwide growth and…
Russia
Chapter 7 addresses the question of how, after seventy years during which religion was violently suppressed, a religious reawakening could have occurred within a few years that is unparalleled in the post-communist states. According to the empirical data, many signs speak for a religious renaissance in Russia. Not only has church membership increased by about 30 per cent, but also belief in God. However, the religious revival can be hardly attrib…
Between Dechurchification and Religious Persistence
The analysis conducted in this chapter of the religious changes undergone by the Federal Republic since its founding considers the religious losses as well as the sometimes astonishing resistance of religious and church entities, but also the observable small religious increases. It addresses the following questions among others: Is it really the case that there has occurred a break in tradition in terms of people’s ties to the church? In which p…
Religion and Modernity
This book focuses on two issues. First, it describes how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies. Second, it explains what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes. After discussing the two central concepts of the investigation, religion and modernity, the book presents the most important theories that deal with the relationship between the two. The empirical part, which constitute…
Focus on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value transformations. As part of the REVACERN (Religion and Values in Central and Eastern Europe Research Network) project – supported by the EU Sixth Framework Program – more than 70 researchers from 15 countries in the region analyzed and discussed …
Links-Rechts und religiöse Vielfalt
Möglichkeitsbedingungen und Grenzen der Toleranz
Eine neue religiös-kulturelle Spannungslinie in Deutschland?
Grenzen der Toleranz
Grenzen der Toleranz
Covid-19 and orientations towards solidarity
Solidarity is core to Europe's societal organisation and was intensively addressed in recent research. Using data collected before and during the lockdown in spring 2020, we examine whether value orientations towards solidarity changed in three countries (Spain, Hungary, and Romania). Before the pandemic, people in Spain expressed higher solidarity than people in Hungary and Romania. Our argument claims that when facing uncertainty, people react …
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary
Over the past 15 years, Hungary has undergone a series of political transformations that have had a profound impact on higher education. The government has begun to strengthen its loyal right-wing conservative academic regime, which helps to propagate its neo-conservative agenda; it has meanwhile restructured and steadily narrowed the scope of higher education and especially of the social sciences, converting most state universities into public i…
Youth and Religiosity in Hungary, 2000-2008
This essay analyses the changing religiosity of the Hungarian youth population between the ages of 15 and 29 after the millennium. The basis for this empirical investigation is provided by the three waves (2000, 2004, 2008) of the National Youth Study. From their results, a similar picture emerges on the religiosity of the youth as from other nation-wide surveys, in relation to the whole adult population. Since the first Youth Study a slow but st…
Grenzen der Toleranz
Links-Rechts und religiöse Vielfalt
Möglichkeitsbedingungen und Grenzen der Toleranz
Eine neue religiös-kulturelle Spannungslinie in Deutschland?
Focus on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value transformations. As part of the REVACERN (Religion and Values in Central and Eastern Europe Research Network) project – supported by the EU Sixth Framework Program – more than 70 researchers from 15 countries in the region analyzed and discussed …
A Stronghold of Catholicism
Compared to other Western European countries, Italy stands out in its rather high level of religiosity. Weekly church attendance has consistently exceeded the one third mark; confidence in the church has increased slightly; belief in God has remained at a high level; and belief in life after death, and in heaven and hell, has increased. The chapter investigates why both church practice and people’s ties to their faith have remained more or less s…
Macro- and Microsociological Explanations for Differences between Countries
After the individual case studies presented in the previous chapters, the book now investigates whether the results of the individual case analyses can be generalized, which depends on whether they can also be confirmed against the background of a larger sample. A multilevel analysis involving a total of fifty-four countries was therefore carried out. Church attendance and belief in God, as well as indexes of individual and church religiosity, we…
Reflections on the Concept of Religion
There is no definition of religion that is universally valid and generally accepted in religious studies. Increasing numbers of scholars of religion see the attempt to define religion as doomed to failure, and therefore do not even try. A concept of religion is, however, indispensable for staking out the subject area which the sociology of religion and religious studies are concerned with. Defining clearly what is meant by religion is necessary n…
South Korea
In South Korea, the processes of rapid modernization after the Second World War were accompanied by an upturn in the religion that has suffered the heaviest losses in Europe: Protestant Christianity. The analysis shows that the rise of Protestantism in South Korea can be attributed to a number of factors. The provision of support networks of solidarity for individuals exposed to the rapid processes of modernization, industrialization, and urbaniz…
Patterns and Determinants of Religious Change in the Modern Period
Chapter 14 does not design a general theory of religious change, but develops a multiple theoretical perspective including various theoretical elements, which are instrumental for explaining religious changes and which can be combined flexibly. In brief, they are: 1. Functional differentiation as a rule stands in a strained relationship to the integrational capacity of religious communities and churches. If, however, religious identities are link…
Reflections on the Concept of Modernity
Part I contains theoretical reflections on the two central concepts of the book: modernity and religion. This chapter on the concept of modernity begins by addressing the main reservations that have been expressed concerning the classic approaches to this concept in sociology. After discussing objections to modernization theory, the chapter presents an outline of a theory of modernity that serves as the basis for the argumentation of the entire b…
Key Questions and Methodological Preliminaries
Chapter 3 outlines the key questions of the book and the methodology that the book uses to deal with these questions. The questions are as follows: 1. To what extent are functional differentiation and religion compatible? 2. How does vertical differentiation affect the religious landscape? 3. Does the increasing diversity of the religious have a positive or a negative effect on the vitality of religious communities, organizations and markets? Is …
Conclusion
The Conclusion to Part II recaps the most important outcomes of the study so far which can be summarized as follows: The decline in the significance of the religious is closely connected to the transformation of its dominant forms. That means assumptions of secularization theory and of individualization theory are not mutually exclusive. It seems that people’s ties to religion and church begin to loosen in the dimension of practice. The theorem o…
Religion and Religiosity in the US
Although the countries of Western Europe are very similar to the US in terms of their social, political, and economic conditions, they differ greatly when it comes to religion. Chapter 10 discusses how these differences can be explained. The empirical analysis shows that, besides the considerable differences in the level of religiosity between the US and Western Europe, there are also surprising similarities in the weakening church ties and relig…
Charismatic, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Movements in Europe, the US, and Brazil
The growth of Evangelical Protestantism and Pentecostalism is widely regarded as a potent argument against the validity of secularization theory. To explain this growth, Chapter 12 draws on theoretical approaches to analysing new social movements, which allows an expansion of the repertoire of explanations concerning religious change and a testing of alternatives to the models provided by secularization theory. To explain the worldwide growth and…
Russia
Chapter 7 addresses the question of how, after seventy years during which religion was violently suppressed, a religious reawakening could have occurred within a few years that is unparalleled in the post-communist states. According to the empirical data, many signs speak for a religious renaissance in Russia. Not only has church membership increased by about 30 per cent, but also belief in God. However, the religious revival can be hardly attrib…
Between Dechurchification and Religious Persistence
The analysis conducted in this chapter of the religious changes undergone by the Federal Republic since its founding considers the religious losses as well as the sometimes astonishing resistance of religious and church entities, but also the observable small religious increases. It addresses the following questions among others: Is it really the case that there has occurred a break in tradition in terms of people’s ties to the church? In which p…
Religion and Modernity
This book focuses on two issues. First, it describes how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies. Second, it explains what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes. After discussing the two central concepts of the investigation, religion and modernity, the book presents the most important theories that deal with the relationship between the two. The empirical part, which constitute…
Covid-19 and orientations towards solidarity
Solidarity is core to Europe's societal organisation and was intensively addressed in recent research. Using data collected before and during the lockdown in spring 2020, we examine whether value orientations towards solidarity changed in three countries (Spain, Hungary, and Romania). Before the pandemic, people in Spain expressed higher solidarity than people in Hungary and Romania. Our argument claims that when facing uncertainty, people react …
Does Home or School Matter More? The Effect of Family and Institutional Socialization on Religiosity
The proportion of people who receive a religious upbringing at home and attend religious educational institutions varies across time and space. It is debatable how effectively various forms of religious socialization contribute to shaping one’s religious identity. In Hungary, the proportion of young people receiving a religious upbringing is declining, but the church-run school sector is growing, which is accompanied by an increase in the proport…
National Identity, Religion, and Religiosity in Central and Eastern Europe
This paper investigates the complex interrelation between national identity and religion in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), moving beyond binary conceptualizations by integrating multiple forms of national belonging, religiosity, and spirituality. Drawing on data from the Pew Research Center’s Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe survey across 16 post-communist countries, we performed a k-means cluster analysis …
Antisemitism among Muslims in Germany before and after October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023 is regarded as the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Shoah and marks a historical turning point. Since then, the repercussions of this terrorist attack and the subsequent Hamas-Israel war have been intensely debated. Antisemitic and violence-glorifying incidents in certain Muslim-migrant milieus have triggered emotionally charged debates on so-called “Muslim antisemitism.” However, little is known so far about the broader impac…
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary
Over the past 15 years, Hungary has undergone a series of political transformations that have had a profound impact on higher education. The government has begun to strengthen its loyal right-wing conservative academic regime, which helps to propagate its neo-conservative agenda; it has meanwhile restructured and steadily narrowed the scope of higher education and especially of the social sciences, converting most state universities into public i…
Students’ climate change emotions, attitudes, and self-efficacy in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
Climate-related emotions, attitudes, and self-efficacy are increasingly recognized as interlinked drivers of adolescents’ pro-environmental behavior, yet evidence on their joint role across cultural contexts remains limited. This study explores the interplay between climate-related emotions, attitudes, and pro-environmental behaviors among secondary school students from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. It is based on previous studies fo…
Political science (19 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Religiosity (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works)