Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embod
An important contribution to the fields of religion and Eastern Slavic studies, this volume challenges readers to rethink old pieties and to reconsider the function of religion.
This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most neglected. Inevitably, this emphasises differences in teachings and experience, but it also brings out common threads, most notably the resilience displayed in the face of alien and often hostile political regimes. The central theme is the survival against the odds of Orthodoxy in its many forms into the modern era. The last phase of Byzantium proves to have been surprisingly important in this survival. It provided Orthodoxy with the intellectual, artistic and spiritual reserves to meet later challenges. The continuing vitality of the Orthodox Churches is evident for example in the Sunday School Movement in Egypt and the Zoe brotherhood in Greece.
In the void left by the fall of Communism in Russia during the late twentieth century, can that country establish a true civil society? Many scholars have analyzed the political landscape to answer th
The 17 articles, reproduced from publication between 1974 and 2003, address some areas of the Syriac tradition not covered by his three previous volumes in the series: the christology of the Church of
The Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimage into the Orthodox Church Veiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an enigma to the Western world. Yet, as Frederica Mathew
Brian Hebblethwaite is known throughout the theological world, due to the fact he has written on a wide variety of topics. Here the three key topics on which he has written in the past, are considered
Liveris (Curtin U. of Technology, Australia) explores the contributions of individual Eastern Orthodox women in the ecumenical movement, and the influence of growing relationships between Orthodox wom
In Kyriacos C. Markides’s newest book, Eastern Orthodox mysticism meets Western Christianity as the internationally renowned author takes readers on a deep journey back in time to unveil the very root
Although Eastern Orthodoxy has more than 200 million adherents and is a vital resource in tracking the intrusion of modernity and the trend toward trans-nationalism, few Western scholars have the expe
In nine articles, contributors examine the role of both faiths in constituting, challenging, and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, sometimes separately, and sometimes in concert. Thei
Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting - and for many years suspected of messalianism - this collection of thirty memre Ydiscourses‥ has been long reco
Perhaps because Allatios (1586-1669) was not a particularly original writer, says Hartnup; his writings are not deeply studied nor widely known to modern scholarship, though he stood at the center of
