Orthodox Churches And Politics In Southeastern Europe

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030241391

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Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation. This volume examines the politics of Orthodox Churches in Southeastern Europe, emphasizing three key modes of resistance to the influence of (Western) liberal values: Nationalism (presenting themselves as protectors of the national being), Conservatism (defending traditional values such as the “traditional family”), and Intolerance (of both non-Orthodox faiths and sexual minorities). The chapters in this volume present case studies of all the Orthodox Churches of the region.

Author : Paschalis Kitromilides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351185417

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Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World by Paschalis Kitromilides Pdf

This book explores how the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the leading centre of spiritual authority in the Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, coped with political developments from Ottoman times until the present. The book outlines how under the Ottomans, despite difficult circumstances, the Patriarchate managed to draw on its huge symbolic and moral power and organization to uphold the unity and catholicity of the Orthodox Church, how it struggled to do this during the subsequent age of nationalism when churches within new nation-states unilaterally claimed their autonomy reflecting local national demands, and how the church coped in the twentieth century with the rise of nationalist Turkey, the decline of Orthodoxy in Asia Minor and with the Cold War. The book concludes by assessing the current position and future prospects of the Patriarchate in the region and the world.

Author : Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović,Radmila Radić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319633541

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Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe by Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović,Radmila Radić Pdf

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity. The movements of religious renewal among Orthodox believers appeared almost simultaneously in different areas of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and during the first decades of the twentieth century. This volume examines what could be defined as renewal movement in Eastern Orthodox traditions. Some case studies include the God Worshippers in Serbia, religious fraternities in Bulgaria, the Zoe movement in Greece, the evangelical movement among Romanian Orthodox believers known as Oastea Domnului (The Lord’s Army), the Doukhobors in Russia, and the Maliovantsy in Ukraine. This volume provides a new understanding of processes of change in the spiritual landscape of Orthodox Christianity and various influences such as other non-Orthodox traditions, charismatic leaders, new religious practices and rituals.

Author : Lucian Leuștean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 0823261301

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Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe by Lucian Leuștean Pdf

Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the wake of the Ottoman Empire's decline, this volume examines the role of Orthodox churches in the construction of national identities.

Author : Miroslav Polzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UVA:X030338055

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Religion and European Integration by Miroslav Polzer Pdf

Author : Lucian N. Leustean
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823256082

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Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe by Lucian N. Leustean Pdf

Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s decline, Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe examines the role of Orthodox churches in the construction of national identities. Drawing on archival material available after the fall of communism in southeastern Europe and Russia, as well as material published in Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Russian, Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe analyzes the challenges posed by nationalism to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the ways in which Orthodox churches engaged in the nationalist ideology.

Author : Sebastian Rimestad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000227611

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Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe by Sebastian Rimestad Pdf

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world. Organised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse the Orthodox Church in Western Europe during the twentieth century. It explores pastoral, ecclesiological, institutional and ecumenical discourses in order to present a holistic view of how the Church views itself and how it seeks to interact with other denominations. Taken together, these four fields reveal a discursive vitality outside of the traditionally Orthodox societies that is, however, only partly reabsorbed by the church hierarchs in core Orthodox regions, like Southeast Europe and Russia. The Orthodox Church is a complex and multi-faceted global reality.Therefore, this book will be a vital guide to scholars studying the Orthodox Church, ecumenism and religion in Europe, as well as those working in religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology more generally.

Author : S. Ramet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137330727

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Religion and Politics in Post-Socialist Central and Southeastern Europe by S. Ramet Pdf

This volume examines the political engagement of religious associations in the post-socialist countries of Central and Southeastern Europe, with a focus on revelations about the collaboration of clergy with the communist-era secret police, intolerance, and controversies about the inclusion of religious instruction in the schools.

Author : Tornike Metreveli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000283273

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Orthodox Christianity and the Politics of Transition by Tornike Metreveli Pdf

This book discusses in detail how Orthodox Christianity was involved in and influenced political transition in Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia after the collapse of communism. Based on original research, including extensive interviews with clergy and parishioners as well as historical, legal and policy analysis, the book argues that the nature of the involvement of churches in post-communist politics depended on whether the interests of the church (for example, in education, the legal system or economic activity) were accommodated or threatened: if accommodated, churches confined themselves to the sacred domain; if threatened they engaged in daily politics. If churches competed with each other for organizational interests, they evoked the support of nationalism while remaining within the religious domain.

Author : Christine Chaillot
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 3034307098

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The Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century by Christine Chaillot Pdf

It is common knowledge that the majority of the population of Eastern Europe belong to the Christian Orthodox tradition. But how many people have an adequate knowledge of the past or even of the present of these Orthodox churches? This book aims to present an introduction to this history written for a general audience, both Christian and non-Christian. After the 1917 revolution in Russia, communism spread to most of the countries of Eastern Europe. By 1953, at the time of Stalin's death, the division between Eastern and Western Europe seemed absolute. However, the advent of perestroika at the end of the 1980s brought about political changes that have enabled the Orthodox Church to develop once again in Eastern Europe. The foundation of the European Union in 1993 has had a broader significance for Orthodox communities, who can now participate in the future development of Europe. Some Orthodox Churches already have their representatives at the European Union in Brussels. These include the patriarchates of Constantinople, Russia and Romania, along with the Church of Greece and the Church of Cyprus. Today, Europe is becoming increasingly religiously diverse, even within Christianity itself. A growing number of Orthodox Christians have come to work and settle in Western Europe. An understanding of the history of the Orthodox communities in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century will contribute, in a spirit of informed dialogue, to the shaping of a new united Europe that is still in the process of expansion. This book is translated from the French version (published 2009).

Author : Cyril Hovorun
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506453118

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Political Orthodoxies by Cyril Hovorun Pdf

Dispatches on nationalism and religion As an insider to church politics and a scholar of contemporary Orthodoxy, Cyril Hovorun outlines forms of political orthodoxy in Orthodox churches, past and present. Hovorun draws a big picture of religion being politicized and even weaponized. While Political Orthodoxies assesses phenomena such as nationalism and anti-Semitism, both widely associated with Eastern Christianity, Hovorun focuses on the theological underpinnings of the culture wars waged in eastern and southern Europe. The issues in these wars include monarchy and democracy, Orientalism and Occidentalism, canonical territory, and autocephaly. Wrought with peril, Orthodox culture wars have proven to turn toward bloody conflict, such as in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Accordingly, this book explains the aggressive behavior of Russia toward its neighbors and the West from a religious standpoint. The spiritual revival of Orthodoxy after the collapse of Communism made the Orthodox church in Russia, among other things, an influential political protagonist, which in some cases goes ahead of the Kremlin. Following his identification and analysis, Hovorun suggests ways to bring political Orthodoxy back to the apostolic and patristic track.

Author : Maria Falina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350282056

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Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia by Maria Falina Pdf

Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia explores the interaction between religion, nationalism, and political modernity in the first half of the 20th century, taking the case of the Serbian Orthodox Church as an example. This book historicizes the widely held assumption that the bond between religion and nationalism in the Balkans is a natural one or that this bond has been historically inevitable. It tells a complex story of how East Orthodox Christianity came to be at the core of one version of Serbian nationalism by bringing together the themes of religion, nationalism, politics, state-building, secularization, and modernity. Maria Falina reconstructs how the ideological fusion between Serbian nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity was forged. The analysis emphasizes ideas and ideologies through a close reading of public discourses and historical narratives while paying attention to individual actors and their personal histories. The book argues that the particular political vision of the Serbian Orthodox Church emerged in reaction to and in interaction with the challenges posed by political modernity that were not unique to Yugoslavia. These included establishing the modern multinational and multi-religious state, the fear of secularization, and the rise of communism and fascism. Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia makes an important contribution to understanding the history of interwar Yugoslavia, 20th-century Europe, and the ties between religion and nationalism.

Author : Artan R. Hoxha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000608588

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Communism, Atheism and the Orthodox Church of Albania by Artan R. Hoxha Pdf

This book examines the relations between the Albanian communist regime and the Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (AAOC) from 1945, when the communists came to power, to 1967, when Albania became the only atheistic state in the world, and religion of all kinds was completely suppressed. Based on extensive archival research, the book outlines Orthodox Church life under communism and considers the regime’s strategies to control, use, and subordinate the Church. It argues against a simple state oppression versus Church resistance scenario, showing that the situation was much more complex, with neither the regime nor the Church being monolithic entities. It shows how, despite the brutality and the constant pressure of the state, the Church successfully negotiated with the communist authorities and benefited from engaging with them, and how the communist authorities used the Church as a tool of foreign policy, especially to strengthen the regime’s ties with their East European allies.

Author : Grace Davie,Lucian Leuștean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198834267

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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe by Grace Davie,Lucian Leuștean Pdf

This authoritative collection offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. Written by leading scholars in the field, it demonstrates the enduring presence of lived and institutionalised religion in the social networks of identity, policy, and power over two millennia of European history.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0822320703

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Nihil Obstat by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

Politics, religion, and social change in the post-communist world of Eastern Europe and Russia.