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Religion in Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism: From Euphoria to Anxiety

, 2020
In the decades prior to the implosion of the communist system, change could be discerned here and there in Eastern Europe. The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the most pertinent developments that spurred the transition from ...
Mojzes, Paul B
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Searle and Cherenkov\u27s A Future and a Hope: Mission, Theological Education, and the Transformation of Post-Soviet Society - Book Review

, 2015
Anniversary reflections on developments since the end of the Soviet Union 25 years ago have started, but rare is the book attempting an assessment of what happened to post-Soviet ...
Sawatsky, Walter
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]

, 2016
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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Increasing State Restrictions on Russian Protestant Seminaries

, 2020
In sum, Russian Protestant seminaries are presently undergoing a trial by state inspection that threatens their very existence. Academics Perry Glanzer and Konstantin Petrenko are correct in asserting that the Russian state’s “power to license and ...
Elliott, Mark R.
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The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This conference that took place
Aldrich, Sophie Lei, Ammerman, Nancy, Berger, Peter L., Buultjens, Ralph, Connor, Walter, Craig-Hart, Patti, Cramer, Constance S., Drill, Craig, Friedman, Benjamin, Fromkin, David, Gingerich, Owen, Glashow, Sheldon, Gross, Irena, Hammond, Norman, Harper, Charles, Hart, Douglas M., Katz, Steven, Kimball, Roger, Kornberg, Hans, Sir, Kramer, Jane, Maitre, H. Joachim, Marsh, Chistopher, Mayers, David, McGahan, Anita, Meyer, Michael, Prothero, Stephen, Simon, Steven, Smith, Michael J., Talbot, Phillips, Tracy, James, Watts, John, Wegter-McNelly, Kirk   +31 more
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Russian Orthodox framing of abortion in online journalism on religion. [PDF]

Soc Compass, 2023
Hill C.
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The Intertwining of Religion and Nation: The Russian Administration’s Approach to Religious Life and National Identity

, 2019
Excerpt: The relationship between religion and nation that is promoted by a state will have tremendous effects on religious minority groups. For religious minorities in Russia, the forms that are most utilized by the state are exclusion and strong ...
Admiraal, Beth
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Atomization, Decentralization, and Sustainability: Prominent Trends on the Russian Protestant Church Scene

, 2020
At least in Russia–and China–the age of euphoria prominent 30 years ago is gone. The church missions committed to short-term gains have left for greener pastures and the congregations remaining behind are now, more than ever, required to determine their ...
Yoder, William
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"Everything good against everything bad": traditional values in the search for new Russian national idea. [PDF]

Z Relig Ges Polit, 2022
Stepanova EA.
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Lessons Learned in Eurasia Ministry: Mostly the Hard Way

, 2017
The present article is based on a speech delivered at a conference of the United Methodist Church: “Eurasia-Central Asia – In Mission Together,” Fulton, Maryland, May 5 ...
Elliott, Mark R
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