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...
Bringing together international scholars from across a range of linked disciplines to examine the concept of the person in the Greek Christian East, this book stretches in its scope from the New Testament to contemporary debates surrounding personho...Loe edasi...
For more than five hundred years John of Damascus (c. 655-c.745) has been the subject of an extensive literature, both scholarly and popular. Through the studies included here (of which six have been translated into English for this volume), Vassa K...Loe edasi...
This book analyses contemporary Christian-Muslim relations in the traditional lands of Orthodoxy and Islam. In particular, it examines the development of Eastern Orthodox ecclesiological thinking on Muslim-Christian relations and religious minoritie...Loe edasi...
By looking at liturgy, performance, prayer, poetry, and the material culture of worship, this book forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval eastern Mediterranean, centered on the history of practice. It studies...Loe edasi...
Following the end of the Soviet Union the Russian Orthodox Church greatly increased the number of saints, taking the total from the approximately 300 canonised in the previous one thousand years to over 2,000 by 2006. This book explores this interes...Loe edasi...
This book re-assesses the viability of the social model of Radical Orthodoxy given by John Milbank, before attempting an out-narration of this vision with a more convincing account of the link between the example of the Trinitarian divine and the cr...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction. Together these explore the role of Greek among Christian communities in the late antique and Byz...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2019, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003721314)
This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118....Loe edasi...
Based on long-term fieldwork, The Burning Saints traces the historical development and sociocultural context of the Greek fire-walking rituals....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199368396)
The book presents an original and critical study of Coptic-Muslim relations in Mubaraks Egypt, providing a comprehensive analysis of its political and social background. With great historical depth, the book examines the Coptic concerns discussed a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199324958)
This book examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
Sari: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198701583)
This study offers a new interpretation of twentieth-century Russian Orthodox theology by engaging the work of Georges Florovsky (1893-1979), especially his program of a return to the Church Fathers....Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the heritage of Coptic Christians. The contributors combine academic expertise with intimate and practical knowledge of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic heritage. The chapters explore historical,...Loe edasi...
This book examines the position of Greek Orthodox Christians within the administrative, social and economic structures of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Loe edasi...
Sari: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199650651)
The foremost Roman Catholic theologian of the middle ages, Thomas Aquinas, was hugely popular in the last days of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, in contrast to his largely negative reception by later Orthodox commentators.This book is the first to e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195390261)
This volume provides an ecumenical collection of scholarly essays on the Philokalia that introduces readers to its background, motifs, authors, and relevance for contemporary life and thought....Loe edasi...
In recent years, the Russian Orthodox Church has become a more prominent part of post-Soviet Russia. A number of assumptions exist regarding the Churchs relationship with the Russian state, and this book challenges these assumptions, and demonstrate...Loe edasi...
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. This title features studies that cover a chronological range...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2011, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444392555)
With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume En cyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Ch...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199593194)
A study of the ascetic teaching of 7th century writer Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian), a popular figure in Eastern Christain tradition. Hagman uses Isaacs writings to argue that asceticism is not about punishing the body, but is a way to use th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2010, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110221305)
An annotated critical edition of an unpublished collection of hymnographical texts, preserved in the 11th-12th-century Greek manuscript 11 of the library of Leimonos monastery, Lesbos, Greece....Loe edasi...
