ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The survey of the post-Soviet Lithuanian religious field leaves the impression of two simultaneous, yet apparently somewhat contradictory processes. In general terms, they are indicative of wider social developments in Eastern European societies after the demise of socialism, oscillating between the appropriation of European and global socio-cultural features, discourses, and images. The current situation of the religious field in Lithuania can be theorized by invoking several grand theories from the realm of religious research on contemporary society. The Lithuanian case illustrates two important things in this context. On the one hand, religiosity has become individualized, a matter of taste rather than a matter of course, but the same does not hold true for the issue of religious identification. Thus, most people maintain a structural relationship with the dominant church, rather than confessing to a different religion.
