Overview

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation. This volume examines the politics of Orthodox Churches in Southeastern Europe, emphasizing three key modes of resistance to the influence of (Western) liberal values: Nationalism (presenting themselves as protectors of the national being), Conservatism (defending traditional values such as the “traditional family”), and Intolerance (of both non-Orthodox faiths and sexual minorities). The chapters in this volume present case studies of all the Orthodox Churches of the region.

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Author:   Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2019 ed.
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9783030241384

ISBN 10:   3030241386
Pages:   267
Publication Date:   01 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.  The Orthodox Churches of Southeastern Europe:  Nationalism, conservativism, and intolerance.- 2.  Faith, Nation, and Structure: The diachronic durability of Orthodox Churches in the Balkans.- 3.  Conservative Orthodoxy in Romania.- 4.  The Bulgarian Orthodox Church:  Authoring/advancing a new vision about the Orthodox Church’s role in the contemporary life of Bulgarian society and its historical memory.- 5.  Serbian Orthodox Church post 1989.- 6.  The relationship between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Yugoslav/post-Yugoslav Jewish community.- 7.  The Greek Orthodox Church.- 8.  The Macedonian Orthodox Church in the New Millennium.- 9.  Navigating the Post-Modern World:  The Albanian Orthodox Church’s century of transition.- 10.  The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia:  Examining the ambivalence and ambiguity of its historical role.- 11. Afterword.

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Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway. Born in London, Great Britain, she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at UCLA in 1981 and moved to Norway in 2001. She is the author of 14 books, including, most recently, Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist visions of modernity (Central European University Press, 2019).

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