Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks : On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980. a Festschrift for Sabrina P. Ramet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cibulka, Frank.

Contributor:

Irwin, Zachary T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Religion and politics.

Religion and politics--Europe, Eastern--History--21st century.

Europe, Eastern--Church history--20th century.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Church history--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Cibulka Frank : Frank Cibulka is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.Irwin Zachary T. : Zachary T. Irwin is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Patriarch Kirill. Arenas of Leadership and Challenges of the 21st Century Russian Orthodox Church

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. Monsignor Tomáš Halík and the Struggle for the Soul of the Czech Roman Catholic Church

One God, One Episcopate, One Nation. The Making of the Public Identity of Catholic Hierarchy in Post-Socialist Slovakia

A Church on the Margins . Reverend Gábor Iványi and the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship

Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, the Forgotten Anticommunist Dissident

Global and Local in the Response of Orthodox Churches to the First Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic . With a Special Focus on the Case of Bulgaria

In Defense of Darwin . Is there a Liberal Wing within the Serbian Orthodox Church?

Catholic Church in Croatia . Legal Framework and Social Frictions

The Slovene Roman Catholic Church Yesterday and Today

The Curious Case of the Macedonian Church . A Survey of the Past and Present

The Derailed Christian Mission . Neoliberal Globalization Claims another Victory in Post-Communist Albania

Reflections on the Role and Functions of Religion in Eastern Europe and Elsewhere

How Does She Know All of This? Sabrina Ramet’s Contribution to the Field of Slavic Studies and Beyond

Conclusion

Sabrina P. Ramet’s Publications

Contributors

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-72049-8

963-386-458-5

9781003720492

OCLC:

1483821029