ABSTRACT
Introduction The interaction of politics and religion took the most extreme forms in twentieth century Hungary. The country went through phases of clericalism and atheism and it also learned the similarities and differences between red and white dictatorships. The period after 1990 lacked these extreme situations, but government composition varied from monochrome ‘Christian’ to ex-Communist-secular liberal coalitions. The volatility of the context made religion a potentially powerful determining factor of political attitudes and behaviour.
