Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780759105362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 304 str.

Victor Roudometof; Alexander Agadjanian; Jerry G. Pankhurst

Opis

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention. While more-covered religions emerge as powerful transnational forces, Eastern Orthodoxy appears doggedly local, linked to the ethnicity and land of the now marginalized Eastern Europe. But Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age brings together new and nuanced understandings of the Orthodox churches - inside and outside of Eastern Europe - as they negotiate an increasingly networked world. The picture that emerges is less of a people stubbornly refusing modernization, more of a people seeking to maintain a stable Orthodox identity in an unstable world. For anyone interested in the role of Eastern Orthodoxy in the 21st century, this volume provides the place to begin