Global Eastern Orthodoxy
Politics, Religion, and Human Rights
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Beschreibung
This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights. The chapters in Part I address the challenges of modern human rights discourse to Orthodox Christianity and examine conditions for active presence of Orthodox churches in the public sphere of plural societies. It suggests theoretical and empirical considerations about the relationship between politics and Orthodoxy by exploring topics such as globalization, participatory democracy, and the linkage of religious and political discourses in Russia, Greece, Belarus, Romania, and Cyprus. Part II looks at the issues of diaspora and identity in global Orthodoxy, presenting cases from Switzerland, America, Italy, and Germany. In doing so, the book ties in with the growing interest resulting from the novelty of socio-political, economic, and cultural changes which have forced religious groups and organizations to revise and redesign their own institutional structures, practices, and agendas.
This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights. The chapters in Part I address the challenges of modern human rights discourse to Orthodox Christianity and examine conditions for active presence of Orthodox churches in the public sphere of plural societies. It suggests theoretical and empirical considerations about the relationship between politics and Orthodoxy by exploring topics such as globalization, participatory democracy, and the linkage of religious and political discourses in Russia, Greece, Belarus, Romania, and Cyprus. Part II looks at the issues of diaspora and identity in global Orthodoxy, presenting cases from Switzerland, America, Italy, and Germany. In doing so, the book ties in with the growing interest resulting from the novelty of socio-political, economic, and cultural changes which have forced religious groups and organizations to revise and redesign their own institutional structures, practices, and agendas.
Brings together a group of top scholars on an understudied topic Fills a gap in the literature on the role and place of Orthodox Christianity in the process of globalization Looks at new geographical regions traditionally not considered as part of the Orthodox world
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Giuseppe Giordan
Themen in »Global Eastern Orthodoxy«
Globalization and Eastern Orthodoxy Hybridization and innovation in Orthodox churches Demography of Global Orthodoxy Orthodox churches in diaspora and migration Eastern Orthodoxy and geopolitics Eastern Orthodoxy in international relations Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete Orthodox Human rights and inter-Orthodox dialogue Religious freedom and Eastern Orthodoxy Eastern Orthodoxy and human rights Tradition, Acculturation, and Hybridization among Old Believers
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“The newer work, referenced and contextualized so ably in this volume, has provided intellectual undergirding for the multidisciplinary, multidimensional, and theoretical creativity we find in this collection. Its focus on Europe and the major North American diaspora populations of Orthodox nations fills a need to synthesize scholarship on the broadening questions animating the global religion of Eastern Orthodoxy, along with the faith, politics, economics, and cultures of Orthodox people.” (Jerry G. Pankhurst, RASCEE, rascee.net, Vol. 14 (1), 2021)
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