Routledge Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States
About the Book Series
This Series seeks to publish high quality monographs and edited volumes on religion, society and government in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states by focusing primarily on three main themes: the history of churches and religions (including but not exclusively Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism) in relation to governing structures, social groupings and political power; the impact of intellectual ideas on religious structures and values; and the role of religions and faith-based communities in fostering national identities from the nineteenth century until today.
The Series aims to advance the latest research on these themes by exploring the multi-facets of religious mobilisation at local, national and supranational levels. It particularly welcomes studies which offer an interdisciplinary approach by drawing on the fields of history, politics, international relations, religious studies, theology, law, sociology, and anthropology.
If you wish to submit a proposal, please contact the series editor:
Lucian N. Leustean, Aston University, Birmingham, UK: [email protected]
and Dorothea Schaefter, Senior Editor, Routledge: [email protected]
Religion During the Russian Ukrainian Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Clark, Dmytro Vovk
June 30, 2021
This book investigates how the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has affected the religious situation in these countries. It considers threats to and violations of religious freedom, including those arising in annexed Crimea and in the eastern part of Ukraine, where fighting between ...
Orthodox Religion and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe: On Multiple Secularisms and Entanglements
1st Edition
Edited
By Tobias Koellner
June 30, 2020
This book explores the relationship between Orthodox religion and politics in Eastern Europe, Russia and Georgia. It demonstrates how as these societies undergo substantial transformation Orthodox religion can be both a limiting and an enabling factor, how the relationship between religion and ...
Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity
1st Edition
By Paschalis Kitromilides
June 30, 2020
This book explores how the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the leading centre of spiritual authority in the Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, coped with political developments from Ottoman times until the present. The book outlines how under the Ottomans, despite difficult circumstances, the ...
The Making of the New Martyrs of Russia: Soviet Repression in Orthodox Memory
1st Edition
By Karin Christensen
December 12, 2019
Following the end of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church has canonized a great number of Russian saints. Whereas in the first millennium of Russian Christianity (988-1988) the Church recognized merely 300 Russian saints, the number had grown to more than 2,000 by 2006. This book explores ...
The Catholic Church and Soviet Russia, 1917-39
1st Edition
By Dennis Dunn
April 20, 2018
This book, based on extensive research including in the Russian and Vatican archives, charts the development of relations between the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the death of Pope Pius XI in 1939. It provides background information on the animosity ...
Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ines Angeli Murzaku
January 03, 2018
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...
The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948: From Decline to Resurrection
1st Edition
By Daniela Kalkandjieva
October 12, 2017
This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union’s leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies, the...
The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Kristina Stoeckl
August 26, 2016
This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church's views on human rights. It analyzes the detail of the document, and assesses...