ABSTRACT
The post-Soviet space offers one of the most interesting opportunities to explore the increasing role of religion in politics. It proposes two major developments in the South Caucasus: political groups are trying to use religion to promote their own interests; and religious organizations for their part are attempting to be politically involved to promote their public presence and preferences. Barbara Janelidze's chapter considers the correlation between religious vitality and the fluctuations of church-state relations in Georgia. While the main focus of the article is on church-state relations in Georgia on a more general level, she also examines the discourse of the Georgian Orthodox Church in connection with processes of secularization/desecularization and modernisation. Yulia Antonyan's chapter discusses the remarkable dramatically changing attitudes towards church construction in Armenia. Elnur Ismayilov's chapter on Azerbaijan argues that suggestions regarding the possibility of a religious revolution in Azerbaijan and the rumours that political Islam.
