Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe: Contesting Religious Authority

ISBN-13: 9780367632533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 282 str.

Sebastian Rimestad

Opis

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations.

Spis treści

Preface; Notes on Terminology; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Orthodox Faithful as ‘Diaspora’? The Pastoral Discourse; 3 The Territoriality of Orthodox Church Structures: The Ecclesiological Discourse; 4 Orthodox Jurisdictions as Organisations: The Institutional Discourse; 5 The Christian Church as One: The Ecumenical Discourse; 6 Conclusion

O autorze

Sebastian Rimestad is a senior researcher at the Department of Religious Studies specialising in Christianity. He is the author of  The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1945) (2012), and has published numerous articles on various topics connected with Orthodox Christianity and religion in modernising societies.