Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks
On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980. A Festschrift for Sabrina P. Ramet
Published on 20. November 2024
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-963-386-457-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 secular clergy, and sometimes even competing ecclesiastical hierarchies. The main focus of the book rests on the divisions arising within select Christian Churches, as they confront the processes of secularization and atheization. The coverage area includes Russia and the Ukraine, East-Central Europe and South-Eastern Europe. Some chapters focus on individual clergy who challenge the mainstream of their given Church either from a more liberal or from a more conservative perspective, while others deal with the divisive forces impacting the religious organizations.
This festschrift to honor Sabrina Ramet's seminal contribution to the study of religion in the politics of the communist and post-communist world, brings together several generations of scholars from a variety of countries, both those well established in their fields of study as well as young promising academics.
This festschrift to honor Sabrina Ramet's seminal contribution to the study of religion in the politics of the communist and post-communist world, brings together several generations of scholars from a variety of countries, both those well established in their fields of study as well as young promising academics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
806 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-386-457-9 (9789633864579)
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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.
Zachary T. Irwin is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University.
Content
Introduction
Zachary T. Irwin
Patriarch Kirill: Arenas of Leadership and Challenges of the 21st Century Russian Orthodox Church
Jerry G. Pankhurst and Alar Kilp
Patriarch Filaret and the Orthodox Church in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Kathryn David
Radio Maryja and Fr. Rydzyk as a Creator of the National-Catholic Ideology
Ireneusz Krzeminski
Religious Issues and Church-State Relations in Eastern Germany
Robert F. Goeckel
The Priest and the Bishops: Monsignor Tomas Halik and the Struggle for the Soul of the Czech Roman Catholic Church
Frank Cibulka
One God, One Episcopate, One Nation: The Making of the Public Identity of Catholic Hierarchy in Post-Socialist Slovakia
Agata Sustova-Drelova
A Church on the Margins: Reverend Gabor Ivanyi and the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship
Christopher P. Adam
Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, the Forgotten Anticommunist Dissident
Lavinia Stan
Global and Local in the Response of Orthodox Churches to the First Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Special Focus on the Case of Bulgaria
Daniela Kalkandjieva
In Defense of Darwin: Is there a Liberal Wing within the Serbian Orthodox Church?
Milan Vukomanovic
Catholic Church in Croatia: Legal Framework and Social Frictions
Sinisa Zrinscak and Frane Stanicic
The Slovene Roman Catholic Church Yesterday and Today
Joze Pirjevec
The Curious Case of the Macedonian Church: A Survey of the Past and Present
Zachary T. Irwin
The Derailed Christian Mission: Neoliberal Globalization Claims another Victory in Post-Communist Albania
Isa Blumi
Reflections on the Role and Functions of Religion in Eastern Europe and Elsewhere
Sabrina P. Ramet
How Does She Know All of This? Sabrina Ramet's Contribution to the Field of Slavic Studies and Beyond
Aleksander Zdravkovski
Conclusion
Frank Cibulka
Appendix: List of Sabrina Ramet's Publications
Contributors
Index
Zachary T. Irwin
Patriarch Kirill: Arenas of Leadership and Challenges of the 21st Century Russian Orthodox Church
Jerry G. Pankhurst and Alar Kilp
Patriarch Filaret and the Orthodox Church in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Kathryn David
Radio Maryja and Fr. Rydzyk as a Creator of the National-Catholic Ideology
Ireneusz Krzeminski
Religious Issues and Church-State Relations in Eastern Germany
Robert F. Goeckel
The Priest and the Bishops: Monsignor Tomas Halik and the Struggle for the Soul of the Czech Roman Catholic Church
Frank Cibulka
One God, One Episcopate, One Nation: The Making of the Public Identity of Catholic Hierarchy in Post-Socialist Slovakia
Agata Sustova-Drelova
A Church on the Margins: Reverend Gabor Ivanyi and the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship
Christopher P. Adam
Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, the Forgotten Anticommunist Dissident
Lavinia Stan
Global and Local in the Response of Orthodox Churches to the First Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Special Focus on the Case of Bulgaria
Daniela Kalkandjieva
In Defense of Darwin: Is there a Liberal Wing within the Serbian Orthodox Church?
Milan Vukomanovic
Catholic Church in Croatia: Legal Framework and Social Frictions
Sinisa Zrinscak and Frane Stanicic
The Slovene Roman Catholic Church Yesterday and Today
Joze Pirjevec
The Curious Case of the Macedonian Church: A Survey of the Past and Present
Zachary T. Irwin
The Derailed Christian Mission: Neoliberal Globalization Claims another Victory in Post-Communist Albania
Isa Blumi
Reflections on the Role and Functions of Religion in Eastern Europe and Elsewhere
Sabrina P. Ramet
How Does She Know All of This? Sabrina Ramet's Contribution to the Field of Slavic Studies and Beyond
Aleksander Zdravkovski
Conclusion
Frank Cibulka
Appendix: List of Sabrina Ramet's Publications
Contributors
Index