Comfortably Numb: The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church During and After the Soviet Era (original) (raw)

Estonia is historically a Lutheran country. As a result of mass conversions in the 1840s and 1850s, Orthodox Christianity also became a fixture in Estonia's religious landscape and Baptist and other evangelical free churches reached the country during religious revivals in the 1870s. Today, 29 percent of the population consider themselves having "a faith This chapter was written with support from Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), grant no. 18-11345S (Atheism, Freethought and Secularization in Central and Eastern European Countries in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries).