Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Encounters of Faiths

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T. Bremer
Springer, Dec 11, 2015 - Political Science - 242 pages
This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures.
 

Contents

Introductory Remarks
1
2 Geography Eschatology and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century
16
Ethnoconfessional Aspect
40
4 Confessionalization in the Slavia Orthodoxa Belorussia Ukraine Russia? Potential and Limits of a Western Historiographical Concept
66
Everyday Strategies of the Moscow ChristFaith Believers and of the St Petersburg Mystics Attracted by This Faith in the First Half of the Nineteenth C...
98
History Religion and the Borders of an Imagined Nation
121
The Relevance and Topicality of Their Position in Uniting Europe
146
Aktion Sühnezeichen and the Lutheran Church in the GDR
166
9 Religiosity in European Comparison Theoretical and Empirical Ideas
182
What Is New in the Present Religious Landscape in Croatia?
215
11 The Concept of Canonical Territory in the Russian Orthodox Church
229
Index
237
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ROBERT E. ALVIS History Department, St Meinrad School of Theology, USA LILIYA BEREZHNAYA Historian, formerly Gerda Henkel Fellow, Münster, Germany ALFONS BRÜNING Institute for Eastern Churches Studies, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands LEONID S. CHEKIN Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia DAVID DOELLINGER Department of History, Western Oregon University, USA EKATERINA EMELIANTSEVA Department of Eastern European History, Zurich University, Switzerland JOHANNES OELDEMANN Johann-Adam-Moehler-Institute for Ecumenics, Paderborn, Germany GERT PICKEL Cultural Sociology, Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder, Germany MIHAI SASAUJAN Chair of Church History, Bucharest University, Romania ZRINKA STIMAC Graduate School, Jena University, Germany

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