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An Orthodox Commonwealth

Author : Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000327388
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book An Orthodox Commonwealth written by Paschalis M. Kitromilides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together fifteen studies on the survival and adaptation of the Orthodox religious and cultural tradition in the societies of Southeastern Europe after the fall of Constantinople, a world so often misunderstood and misinterpreted. This problem of cultural history is examined in a diversity of contexts and on multiple levels of analysis in order to elucidate issues of broader concern to social theory such as the fluidity and dynamic character of identity, the intricate encounter of religion and politics and the challenge of secular world views such as the Enlightenment and nationalism to traditional religious outlooks. The author argues consistently against all forms of reductionism, converses at length with the sources in order to pose questions to conventional views and invites the historical imagination to recover and understand a world submerged by the nationalist interpretation of the past. This task involves the recovery of the geographical pluralism that made Orthodox culture a truly transnational phenomenon. The collection accordingly brings into focus both the epicentres of Orthodox culture and symbolism such as Mt Athos and Constantinople, but also its hinterlands in Asia Minor and the Balkans.

Thresholds Into the Orthodox Commonwealth

Author : Lucien J. Frary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893579685
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Thresholds Into the Orthodox Commonwealth written by Lucien J. Frary and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thresholds Into the Orthodox Commonwealth

Author : Theofanis G. Stavrou
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780893574680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Thresholds Into the Orthodox Commonwealth written by Theofanis G. Stavrou and published by Slavica Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Athonite Commonwealth

Author : Graham Speake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108425860
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Athonite Commonwealth written by Graham Speake and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role played by Athos in the spread of Orthodoxy and Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond.

Globalization and Orthodox Christianity

Author : Victor Roudometof
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501468X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Orthodox Christianity written by Victor Roudometof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive contribution to the relationship between religion and globalization, as well as the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and the sociology of religion – and more broadly, the interdisciplinary field of Religious Studies. While deeply engaged with history, this book does not simply narrate the history of Orthodox Christianity as a world religion, nor does it address theological issues or cover all the individual trajectories of each subgroup or subdivision of the faith. Orthodox Christianity is the object of the analysis, but author Victor Roudometof speaks to a broader audience interested in culture, religion, and globalization. Roudometof argues in favor of using globalization instead of modernization as the main theoretical vehicle for analyzing religion, displacing secularization in order to argue for multiple hybridizations of religion as a suitable strategy for analyzing religious phenomena. It offers Orthodox Christianity as a test case that illustrates the presence of historically specific but theoretically distinct glocalizations, applicable to all faiths.

Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World

Author : Paschalis Kitromilides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351185411
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World written by Paschalis Kitromilides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Byzantine Commonwealth

Author : Dimitri Obolensky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Byzantine Commonwealth written by Dimitri Obolensky and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive historical account of the relations--political, diplomatic, ecclesiastical, economic and cultural-- between the Empire and the peoples of Eastern Europe. Shows how there emerged in the early Middle Ages a community of nations which in the course of time came to share a common cultural tradition.

God and the EU

Author : Jonathan Chaplin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131743921X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book God and the EU written by Jonathan Chaplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current political, economic and financial crises facing the EU reveal a deeper cultural, indeed spiritual, malaise – a crisis in ‘the soul of Europe’. Many observers are concluding that the ‘soul of Europe’ cannot be restored to health without a new appreciation of the contribution of religion to its past and future, and especially that of its hugely important but widely neglected Christian heritage, which is alive today even amidst advancing European secularization. This book offers a fresh, constructive and critical understanding of Christian contributions to the origin and development of the EU from a variety of theological and national perspectives. It explains the Christian origins of the EU, documents the various ways in which it has been both affirmed and critiqued from diverse theological perspectives, offers expert, theologically-informed assessments of four illustrative policy areas of the EU (trade, finance, environment, science), and also reports on the place of religion in the EU, including how religious freedom is framed and how contemporary religious (including Muslim) actors relate to EU institutions and vice versa. The book fills a major gap in the current debate about the future of the European project and will be of interest to students and scholars of religion, politics and European studies.

A Companion to Hobbes

Author : Marcus P. Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119634997
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Hobbes written by Marcus P. Adams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes’s thought, providing readers with different ways of understanding Hobbes as a systematic philosopher As one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes is best known for his ideas regarding the nature of legitimate government and the necessity of society submitting to the absolute authority of sovereign power. Yet Hobbes produced a wide range of writings, from translations of texts by Homer and Thucydides, to interpretations of Biblical books, to works devoted to geometry, optics, morality, and religion. Hobbes viewed himself as presenting a unified method for theoretical and practical science—an interconnected system of philosophy that provides many entry points into his thought. A Companion to Hobbes is an expertly curated collection of essays offering close textual engagement with the thought of Thomas Hobbes in his major works while probing his ideas regarding natural philosophy, mathematics, human nature, civil philosophy, religion, and more. The Companion discusses the ways in which scholars have tried to understand the unity and diversity of Hobbes’s philosophical system and examines the reception of the different parts of Hobbes’s philosophy by thinkers such as René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Presenting a diversity of fresh perspectives by both emerging and established scholars, this volume: Provides a comprehensive treatment of Hobbes’s thought in his works, including Elements of Law, Elements of Philosophy, and Leviathan Explores the connecting points between Hobbes’ metaphysics, epistemology, mathematics, natural philosophy, morality, and civil philosophy Offers readers strategies for understanding how the parts of Hobbes’s philosophical system fit together Examines Hobbes’s philosophy of mathematics and his attempts to understand geometrical objects and definitions Considers Hobbes’s philosophy in contexts such as the natural state of humans, gender relations, and materialist worldviews Challenges conceptions of Hobbes’s moral theory and his views about the rights of sovereigns Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, A Companion to Hobbes is an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of Early modern thought, particularly those from disciplines such as History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Politics, Political Theory, and English.

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

Author : Robin Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000076
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics written by Robin Gill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.

Belarus

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134355
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Belarus written by Andrew Wilson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus’s complicated road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics since 1991, the nation’s first year of true independence. Andrew Wilson focuses particular attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s surprising longevity as president, despite human rights abuses and involvement in yet another rigged election in December 2010. Wilson looks at Belarusian history as a series of false starts in the medieval and pre-modern periods, and at the many rival versions of Belarusian identity, culminating with the Soviet Belarusian project and the establishment of Belarus’s current borders during World War II. He also addresses Belarus’s on-off relationship with Russia, its simultaneous attempts to play a game of balance in the no-man’s-land between Russia and the West, and how, paradoxically, Belarus is at last becoming a true nation under the rule of Europe’s “last dictator.”

Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe

Author : Lucian Leuștean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823261307
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe written by Lucian Leuștean and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

An Ambiguous Partnership

Author : Menahem Kaufman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814323700
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book An Ambiguous Partnership written by Menahem Kaufman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the history of Zionism in America is well documented, the history of non-Zionist activities in America is less well known. An Ambiguous Partnership now tells that story. Dr Menahem Kaufman gives a detailed account of how American public figures and Jewish organizations, self-defined as non-Zionists, were influenced by changing attitudes in American society and government towards the Zionist struggle and by the problem of Holocaust survivors in Europe. This study describes the non-Zionists involvement in the political processes in Washington and the United Nations, which eventually brought about the establishment of the State of Israel.

Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church

Author : Tamara Grdzelidze
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268204977
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church written by Tamara Grdzelidze and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grdzelidze’s study evaluates the present state of ecclesiology in the Orthodox Church, focusing on the history of autocephaly and its relationship with the rise of religious nationalism. To date, the Orthodox Church has not sufficiently addressed the pressing problem of religious nationalism. Tamara Grdzelidze’s Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church fills this lacuna, offering a solution to the ecclesiological problems posed by the rise of group-related sentiment in Orthodox communities. Grdzelidze’s monograph begins with an examination of the history of autocephaly and synodality in the Orthodox Church. As she explains, the political autonomy of local churches in the Eastern Roman Empire, which was later transformed into autocephaly, instinctively carried the kernel of group-related sentiments, whether national or ethnic. Over time, such sentiments have given rise to religious nationalism, which has further resulted in the inability of autocephalous churches to disengage from their national political involvements. Consequently, Orthodox Churches are unable to conduct a conversation on the hermeneutics of authority. After sketching this historical background, Grdzelidze offers a solution to this ecclesiological problem, proposing a eucharistic hermeneutics by which the concepts of autocephaly and synodality might be preserved from misappropriation by religious nationalists. This proposal is centered on the principle that the Church represents the Body of Christ and thus embraces the whole people of God and the whole of God’s creation through the sacramental life. Ultimately, this eucharistic mode of visioning the Church furnishes a solution to the crisis of borders and boundaries in the Orthodox Church.

A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe

Author : Howard Louthan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301623
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe written by Howard Louthan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe analyses the history of Christianity from the 15th to the 18th centuries in the lands between the Baltic and Adriatic seas.

Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe

Author : Maria Hämmerli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000737802
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe written by Maria Hämmerli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the literature in the field looks at this religious tradition in terms of its alleged inability to come to terms with modernity – due to its specific religious institutions, practices and dogma – this book takes a step back from such Western-centered and Protestant-biased analysis of religion. It addresses Orthodoxy’s recent encounter with the West, modernity and secularization in the process of post-communist migrations from Eastern Europe, revealing the complicated identity redefinition and re-compositions of a religious group that highly values continuity, tradition and ethnic/national belonging. Using socio-anthropological qualitative research on Romanian, Russian, Greek and Serbian Orthodox migrants in Western Europe in a comparative perspective, this volume grasps the interplay between the institutional and the individually lived aspects of religion in their relation to the increasingly secular "conditions of belief" in Western European host countries. This book is important for those studying or researching Orthodox Christianity, religion and migration, secularization and modernity, as well as those in related disciplines such as sociology, anthropology of religion, religious studies, political science, migration studies and cultural studies.

Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul

Author : Merih Erol
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018420
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul written by Merih Erol and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the musical discourse among Ottoman Greek Orthodox Christians during a complicated time for them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the late Ottoman period (1856–1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, the Greek Orthodox educated elite engaged in heated discussions about their cultural identity, Byzantine heritage, and prospects for the future, at the heart of which were debates about the place of traditional liturgical music in a community that was confronting modernity and westernization. Merih Erol draws on archival evidence from ecclesiastical and lay sources dealing with understandings of Byzantine music and history, forms of religious chanting, the life stories of individual cantors, and other popular and scholarly sources of the period. Audio examples keyed to the text are available online. “Merih Erol’s careful examination of the prominent church cantors of this period, their opinions on Byzantine, Ottoman and European musics as well as their relationship with both the Patriarchate and wealthy Greeks of Istanbul presents a detailed picture of a community trying to define their national identity during a transition. . . . Her study is unique and detailed, and her call to pluralism is timely.” —Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, author of The Musician Mehters “Overall, the book impresses me as a sophisticated work that avoids the standard nationalist views on the history of the Ottoman Greeks.” —Risto Pekka Pennanen, University of Tampere, Finland “This book is a great contribution to the fields of historical ethnomusicology, religious studies, ethnic studies, and Ottoman and Greek studies. It offers timely research during a critical period for ethnic minorities in the Middle East in general and Christians in particular as they undergo persecution and forced migration.” —Journal of the American Academy of Religion