Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780415684903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 832 str.

Lucian N. Leustean;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the Middle East, America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it examines both Orthodox and Oriental churches from the end of the Cold War up to the present day. The book offers a unique insight into the myriad church-state relations in Eastern Christianity and tackles contemporary concerns, opportunities and challenges, such as religious revival after the fall of communism; churches and democracy; relations between Orthodox, Catholic and Greek Catholic churches; religious education and monastic life; the size and structure of congregations; and the impact of migration, secularisation and globalisation on Eastern Christianity in the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

1. Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. An Overview Part I: Chalcedonian Churches 2. The Ecumenical Patriarchate 3. The Russian Orthodox Church 4. The Serbian Orthodox Church5. The Romanian Orthodox Church 6. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church 7. The Georgian Orthodox Church 8. The Orthodox Church of Cyprus 9. The Orthodox Church of Greece 10. The Polish Orthodox Church 11. The Orthodox Church of Albania 12. The Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia 13. Orthodox Churches in America 14. The Finnish Orthodox Church 15. Orthodox Churches in Estonia 16. Orthodox Churches in Ukraine 17. The Belarusian Orthodox Church 18. The Lithuanian Orthodox Church 19. The Latvian Orthodox Church 20. Orthodox Churches in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria 21. Orthodox Churches in Moldova 22. The Macedonian Orthodox Church 23. Orthodox Churches in Japan, China and Korea 24. Orthodox Churches in Australia  Part II: Non-Chalcedonian Churches 25. The Armenian Apostolic Church 26. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Tewahedo Orthodox Church 27. The Coptic Orthodox Church, Fiona McCallum 28. The Syrian Orthodox Church 29. Syrian Christian Churches in India  Part III: The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East 30. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East Part IV: Greek Catholic Churches in Eastern Europe 31. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 32. The Romanian Greek Catholic Church 33. The Bulgarian Eastern Catholic Church 34. The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church  Part V: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century 35. Orthodox Churches and Migration 36. The Greek Catholic Churches in Post-War Catholic–Orthodox Relations  37. Secularism without Liberalism: Orthodox Churches, Human Rights and American Foreign Policy in Southeastern Europe 38. Orthodox Christianity and Globalisation

O autorze

Lucian N. Leustean is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.