Miklós Tomka

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Miklós Tomka (1995)

Miklós Tomka (* 1941 in Budapest ; † November 25, 2010 ) was a Hungarian sociologist of religion .

Life

After attending school, Tomka first studied economics before he began studying Catholic theology and the sociology of religion. After his habilitation in the sociology of religion, he worked as a university lecturer and accepted a position as professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University . During the 1970s he carried out research on religious-sociological processes and the religious situation in Hungary, developing a differentiated model of religiosity that broke the rigid, prevailing bipolar either-or view of a church orientation on the one hand and convinced atheism on the other .

In addition, he was not only director of the Hungarian Sociological Research Center in Budapest , but also president of the Catholic Social Academy.

In addition to his teaching activities, he dealt in particular with Catholic theology in Austria through his research projects in the sociology of religion . Together with the professor of pastoral theology Paul Zulehner and the theologian András Máté-Tóth , he researched the existence of the churches during the changing, aggressive religious and ecclesiastical policy in the communist regimes after the Helsinki Conference for the signing of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) on August 1, 1975.

In December 1995 Tomka was one of the co-founders of the International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Association (ISORECEA), of which he was president between 2001 and 2006.

On empirical research into churches and religions in 14 countries, he and Zulehner published the textbook “Religions and Churches in East (Central) Europe” in 2008, including the results of a 1997 study in ten countries.

For his services he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna on October 15, 2001 .

Publications

Other publications include:

  • Miklós Tomka, Ausra Maslauskaité, Andrius Navickas, Niko Tos: Religion and Churches in Eastern (Central) Europe: Hungary, Lithuania, Slovenia. God after d. Communism , 1999, ISBN 978-3-7966-0975-6 .
  • Miklós Tomka, Paul M. Zulehner: Religion in the Reformed Countries of Eastern (Central) Europe , 1999, ISBN 978-3-7966-0939-8 .
  • Miklós Tomka, Paul M. Zulehner: Religion in the Social Context of Eastern (Central) Europe. God after d. Communism , 2000, ISBN 978-3-7966-0974-9 .
  • Miklós Tomka, Witold Zdaniewicz, Nikodem Krunoslav, Libor Prudky: Religion and Churches in Eastern (Central) Europe: Poland, Croatia, Czech Republic. God after d. Communism , 2001, ISBN 978-3-7966-0989-3 .
  • Karl Gabriel, Josef Pilvousek, Miklós Tomka, Andrea Wilke, Andreas Wollbold: Religion and Churches in East (Central) Europe: Germany-East. God after d. Communism , 2003, ISBN 978-3-7966-1090-5 .
  • Paul M. Zulehner, Miklós Tomka: Religions and Churches in Eastern (Central) Europe. Developments since the fall of the Wall , 2008, ISBN 978-3-7966-1405-7 .
  • Miklós Tomka: Religious Change in Hungary. Religion, Church and Sects after Communism , 2010, ISBN 9783786728382 .
  • Miklós Tomka: Expanding Religion. Religious Revival in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe , 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022815-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miklos Tomka passed away (ISORECEA homepage, November 28, 2010)
  2. ↑ Publications (Schwaben-Verlag)
  3. ↑ Publications (Weltbild)
personal data
SURNAME Tomka, Miklós
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian theologian and sociologist of religion
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2010