Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe

Contesting Religious Authority
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-63253-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

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. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world.

Organised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse the Orthodox Church in Western Europe during the twentieth century. It explores pastoral, ecclesiological, institutional and ecumenical discourses in order to present a holistic view of how the Church views itself and how it seeks to interact with other denominations. Taken together, these four fields reveal a discursive vitality outside of the traditionally Orthodox societies that is, however, only partly reabsorbed by the church hierarchs in core Orthodox regions, like Southeast Europe and Russia.

The Orthodox Church is a complex and multi-faceted global reality.Therefore, this book will be a vital guide to scholars studying the Orthodox Church, ecumenism and religion in Europe, as well as those working in religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology more generally.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rimestad, Sebastian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.