Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness

edited by: Andrii Krawchuk, Thomas Bremer
published by: Palgrave Macmillan
pp: 380
ISBN: 978-1-137-38284-9
price: £60.00 | $85.50 (hardcover), $67.72 (Kindle)

Introduction by Andrii Krawchuk

Part I:     The Ecclesial Self: Traditional Identities and the  Challenges  of  Pluralism
        
1.  Jennifer Wasmuth:   Russian  Orthodoxy  between  State  and  Nation                                                     
2.  Alfons Brüning:   Morality  and  Patriotism:  Continuity  and  Change  in  Russian Orthodox Occidentalism since the Soviet Era                                                     
3.  Daniela Kalkandjieva:   The Bulgarian Orthodox Church at the Crossroads: Between  Nationalism  and  Pluralism                                       
4.  Anna Briskina-Müller:   The Search for a New Church Consciousness in Current Russian  Orthodox  Discourse                                                                            
Part II:     Perceptions of the Religious Other: Difference  and  Convergence        

5.  Thomas Bremer:   Between  Admiration  and  Refusal:  Roman  Catholic  Perceptions of  Orthodoxy                                                                                                             
6.  Dagmar Heller:   Apostolic  Continuity  in  Contradiction  to  Liberalism?  Fields  of Tension between Churches in the East and the West                                            
7.  Ciprian Ghișa:   The Image of the Roman Catholic Church in the Orthodox Press  of  Romania,  1918–1940
8.  Natalia Kochan:   “Oh, East Is East, and West Is West ...”: The Character of Orthodox-Greek Catholic Discourse in Ukraine and Its Regional Dimensions 

Part III:     Orthodox Critiques of the West          

9.  Vasilios N. Makrides:   “ The Barbarian West”: A Form of Orthodox Christian Anti-Western  Critique 
10.  Julia Anna Lis:   Anti-Western  Th  eology in Greece and Serbia Today 
11.  Regina Elsner:   The Russian Orthodox Church on the Values of Modern Society                    

Part IV:     Encounters with European Values

12.  Tina Olteanu and Dorothée de Nève:   Eastern Orthodoxy and the Processes of European Integration                        
13.  Mikhail Zherebyatyev:   The Russian Orthodox Church’s Interpretation of European Legal Values  (1990–2011) 
14.  Olga Kazmina:   The Russian Orthodox Church in a New Situation in Russia: Challenges  and  Responses  

Part  V:     Prospects  for  Religious  Encounter, Consensus,  and  Cooperation      

15.  Matthew Baker:   Neopatristic  Synthesis  and  Ecumenism:  Toward  the  “Reintegration” of  Christian  Tradition 
16.  Christoph Mühl:   Justification in the Theological Conversations between Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Protestant Churches in Germany  
17.  Andrii Krawchuk:   Constructing Interreligious Consensus in  the  Post-Soviet  Space: The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations 

Part VI:     Emerging Encounters and New Challenges in Post-Soviet Central  Asia      

18.  Andrii Krawchuk:   Muslim-Orthodox Relations in Russia: Contextual Readings of A Common Word        
19.  Galina M. Yemelianova:   Radical  Islam  in  the  Ferghana  Valley                                                          
20.  Michael Fredholm:   Uzbek Islamic Extremists in the Civil Wars of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: From Radical Islamic Awakening in the Ferghana Valley to Terrorism with Islamic Vocabulary in Waziristan      

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