This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures.

Russian political history and Russian church history are tied together very tightly. One cannot properly understand the overall history of Russia without considering the role of the Orthodox Church in Russia.
Cross and Kremlin uniquely surveys both the history and the contemporary situation of the Russian Orthodox Church. The first chapter gives a concise chronology from the tenth century through the present day. The following chapters highlight several important issues and aspects of Russian Orthodoxy -- church-state relations, theology, ecclesiastical structure, monasticism,...

From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.

Im Januar 2011 feierte Edeltraud Werner, seit 1994 Professorin fur Franzosische und Italienische Sprachwissenschaft, ihren 60. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass veranstaltete das Institut fur Romanistik der Universitat Halle ein Festkolloquium, in dessen Mittelpunkt das Verhaltnis von Dialekt und Standardsprache, vor allem in Italien, aber auch in anderen europaischen Sprachen und Kulturen, stand. Die Beitrage des Bandes betrachten das Vorkommen von Dialekten und Minderheitensprachen in der Literatur fruher und heute, in den neuen Medien sowie in Institutionen wie der Schule. Herausbildung,...

From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.