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1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Routledge Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States |
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Routledge religion, society and government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Monasticism in Eastern�Central Europe -- 1 Monasticism in Bulgaria -- 2 Croatian monasticism and Glagolitic tradition: Glagolitic letters at home and abroad -- 3 Monasticism in Slovakia and Slovak national development -- 4 Catholic monasticism, orders, and societies in Hungary: centuries of expansion, disaster, and revival -- 5 Religion and identity in Montenegro |
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6 Mount Athos: relations between the Holy Mountain and Eastern Europe7 Roman Catholic monasticism in Poland: a brief overview of selected issues -- 8 Orthodox monasticism and the development of the modern Romanian state: from Dora d�Istria�s criticism (1855) to cyclical reevaluation of monastic spirituality in contemporary Romania -- 9 Monasticism in Serbia in the modern period: development, influence, importance -- 10 The Church and religious orders in Slovenia in the twentieth century -- 11 Between East and West: Albania�s monastic mosaic |
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PART II Monasticism in Russia and the Former Soviet Republics12 Monasticism in modern Russia -- 13 Monasticism in Russia�s far north in the pre-Petrine era: social, cultural, and economic interaction -- 14 Archimandrites and antiquities: the creation of Orthodox-based Russian national identity at Resurrection “New Jerusalem� Monastery in the nineteenth century -- 15 Monasticism and the construction of the Armenian intellectual tradition -- 16 Monks and monasticism in Georgia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
| Summary |
This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism's continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries. Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian historiograph |
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""17 Greco-Catholic monasticism in Ukraine: between mission and contemplation""""Index"" |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317391050 |
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1317391055 |
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