1st Edition
Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980. A Festschrift for Sabrina P. Ramet
480 Pages
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Central European University Press
No Church is monolithic - this is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist countries. The studies confirm that within any religious organization we can expect to find fissures, factions, theological or ideological quarrels, and perhaps even competing interest groups, such as missionary workers, regular clergy versus... Read more
Introduction, Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Filaret and the Orthodox Church in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine, Radio Maryja and Fr. Rydzyk as a Creator of the National-Catholic Ideology, Religious Issues and Church-State Relations in Eastern Germany, The Priest and the Bishops, One God, One Episcopate, One Nation, A Church on the Margins, Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, the Forgotten Anticommunist Dissident, Global and Local in the Response of Orthodox Churches to the First Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic, In Defense of Darwin, Catholic Church in Croatia, The Slovene Roman Catholic Church Yesterday and Today, The Curious Case of the Macedonian Church, The Derailed Christian Mission, Reflections on the Role and Functions of Religion in Eastern Europe and Elsewhere, How Does She Know All of This?, Conclusion, Sabrina P. Ramet’s Publications, Contributors, Index
Biography
Frank Cibulka is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.
Zachary T. Irwin is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University.
