Democratization in Christian Orthodox Europe: Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia

ISBN-13: 9780367420833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 162 str.

Marko Vekovic

Opis

For a long time, Orthodox Christianity was regarded as a religious tradition that was incompatible with democracy. This book challenges this incompatibility thesis, offering an innovative and fresh theoretical framework for dealing with the issue of Orthodoxy and democracy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Orthodoxy and Democratization: Reassessing the Relationship  3. Free-riding of the Church of Greece  4. Leading Role of the Serbian Orthodox Church  5. Reactionary Resistance of the Russian Orthodox Church  6. Three Churches, Three Roads: Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia  7. Conclusions: What Lessons have we Learned?

O autorze

Marko Veković is Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Temple University (2014), Columbia University (2016), and as a post-doc scholar at University of Erfurt (2019). His work has been published in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Church and State, and Democratization.