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Continuity and Change in Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Russia: Enduring Legacies and New Developments in the Making

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two cities of European Russia, this article analyzes continuity and changes in Orthodox Christianity. In so doing, we emphasize property restitution, the renovation of sacred sites, and the importance of religious ...
Tobias Köllner
exaly   +3 more sources

Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019

open access: yesReligions, 2020
In 1919, three Ugandan Anglicans converted to Orthodox Christianity, as they became sure that this was Christianity’s original and only true form. In 1946, Ugandan Orthodox Christians aligned with the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Dmitri M Bondarenko
exaly   +3 more sources

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Uses of the Past in Contemporary Greece

open access: yesReligions, 2011
The article examines the use of Orthodox Christianity in the debates over the cultural heritage of contemporary Greece. Since the birth of modern Greece, Orthodox Christianity has been used as one of the foundational cultural markers for the construction
VÍCTOR Roudometof
exaly   +3 more sources

Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: A Glocal Perspective

open access: yesReligions, 2018
This article analyses the topic of Globalization and Orthodox Christianity. Starting with Victor Roudometof’s work (2014b) dedicated to this subject, the author’s views are compared with some of the main research of social scientists on the ...
Marco Guglielmi, Guglielmi Marco
exaly   +3 more sources

Animals and orthodox Christianity [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2021
Religion has always had a special impact on man's attitude towards animals. In this context, this paper explores the correlation between animal welfare and Orthodox Christianity, with specific reference to the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church on ...
Stojanović Nataša
doaj   +1 more source

Intercultural Dialogue in the Middle Ages: A Christian Cemetery in Pagan Vilnius [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of History, 2022
In Medieval Europe, Lithuania remained a pagan state the longest, officially accepting Catholic baptism only in 1387. But the country had already been influenced by Christian culture, Orthodox from the East and Catholic from the West, since the 11th ...
Rytis Jonaitis
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Seeking The Authentic Christianity: A Prologue on Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Indonesia

open access: yesCMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies), 2022
The history of Christianity in Indonesia is inextricably linked to that of Western colonialism. Due to this historical fact, Christianity has been stigmatized in Indonesian mainly by Muslim society as a colonial religion.
Gun Gun Gunawan   +1 more
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Eastern Orthodox Church and modern religious processes in the world [PDF]

open access: yesMeđunarodni Problemi, 2012
The majority of the Christian world today is affected by weakening adherence to principles of religious practice. The reverse is the case in the countries of predominantly Orthodox tradition. After the collapse of communism, all types of human freedom
Jevtić Miroljub
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A Tentative Proposal to Use Orthodox Theological Relational Selfhood as an Alternative for Confucian-Influenced Chinese Evangelicals

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Chinese evangelicals have rarely interacted. Even if it seems that Eastern Orthodox Christianity and its theology have hardly influenced Chinese evangelicals in the past, this article demonstrates the possibility that ...
Tsung-I Hwang
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Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: An Overview of Their Relationship from the Perspective of Moral Values

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Orthodox–Evangelical relationships are dominated by proselytism (at least in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union). This is understood as church conversion practiced through unfair means among people who are already Christians, belonging to so ...
Daniel Buda
doaj   +1 more source

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