This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid late imperial, early Soviet and Stalinist modernization....Loe edasi...
Orthodox Christianity: The Basics is an introduction to Orthodoxys origins in the apostolic era, historical development, doctrines, spiritual and liturgical practices, to the 21st Century social challenges. It is the ideal for those exploring Christ...Loe edasi...
The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) examines the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union. It demonstrates that freedom of religion did not exist in the Soviet Union, although the church remained a vigorous and potent force in Sovi...Loe edasi...
In this book, leading scholars across the world reflect critically on the significance of the legal thought of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I for human flourishing, for Christian social teaching, and for Christian unity. His legal thought is sum...Loe edasi...
Peter Chrysologus is the first book to offer an introduction to the life of Peter Chrysologus and a selection of his most important sermons in translation, as well as his letter to Eutyches. It is an invaluable tool for anyone working on early Chris...Loe edasi...
This book aims to answer questions around how minority Christian Churches in the UK and Poland the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Orthodox Churches use their own media to position themselves in their social, religious, and political environm...Loe edasi...
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 religi...Loe edasi...
Religion in Albania has had a complicated history, with Orthodoxy, Bektashi and Sunni Islam, Catholicism coexisting throughout much of the history of this Balkan nation....Loe edasi...
Translated from the Russian. These essays were written over the course of more than 40 years. Their authors--Pushkarev, Rusak, and Yakunin--have all been exiled or imprisoned for their outspoken views....Loe edasi...
With the exception of the life of St. Nino, none of the biographies here had been previously translated into English when this book was originally published in 1956. The lives of the Georgian saints are rich and many-sided, not dry chronicles of mon...Loe edasi...
This book offers a nuanced understanding of contemporary Russian Orthodoxy and its changing role in the digital era. It is a gripping read for those with an interest in media studies, digital criticism of religion, religion in the media, the role of...Loe edasi...
John Moschos Spiritual Meadow is one of the most important sources for late sixth-early seventh century Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian monasticism. Introducing appropriate historical and theological background to the tales, Llewellyn Ihssen demon...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
This book, based on in depth ethnographic fieldwork, explores the social background and moral attitudes of the little flock of believers who actively participate in religious life....Loe edasi...
Drawing from and building upon Gells work, Carroll comprehensively explores the uses and purposes of material culture in Eastern Orthodox Christian worship. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in a small Antiochian Orthodox Parish in Lo...Loe edasi...
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aest...Loe edasi...
With contributions from established and new scholars, the book is divided into three sections, which correspond to the main directions that Christos Yannaras has followed philosophy, theology, and culture....Loe edasi...
Regarded as one of the three hierarchs or pillars of orthodoxy along with Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom, Basil is a key figure in the formative process of Christianity in the fourth century. While his role in establishing Trinitarian term...Loe edasi...
This book explores Orthodox religion and politics in Eastern Europe, Russia and Georgia. It shows how the relationship between religion and politics is complex, and how they complement, reinforce, influence, and sometimes contradict each other....Loe edasi...
