| 书目名称 | Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe | | 副标题 | Nationalism, Conserv | | 编辑 | Sabrina P. Ramet | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Thematically organized around the themes of Nationalism, Conservatism, Homophobia, and Religious Intolerance.Includes a chapter dedicated to the problem of anti-Semitism in Serbia.Based on original pr | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation. This volume examines the politics of Orthodox Churches in Southeastern Europe, emphasizing three key modes of resistance to the influence of (Western) liberal values: Nationalism (presenting themselves as protectors of the national being), Conservatism (defending traditional values such as the “traditional family”), and Intolerance (of both non-Orthodox faiths and sexual minorities). The chapters in this volume present case studies of all the Orthodox Churches of the region. . | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Christianity; Nationalism; Conservatism; Homophobia; Religious Intolerance; European politics; post-commun | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24139-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-24141-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-24139-1Series ISSN 2731-6769 Series E-ISSN 2731-6777 | | issn_series | 2731-6769 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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,The Orthodox Churches of Southeastern Europe: An Introduction, |
Sabrina P. Ramet |
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Whether in Southeastern Europe or elsewhere, the Orthodox Church has been characterized by profound conservatism and an enduring conviction of its unique monopoly on religious truth. From these two features spring also an intolerance of other religious bodies as well as of sexual minorities, who, according to Orthodox doctrine, defy God’s eternal law. But the Orthodox Church does not restrict itself to broadly understood theological and moral matters, but has also, across the centuries, presented itself as the champion of the various nations of Southeastern Europe. These themes—conservatism, intolerance (extending to both religious intolerance and homophobia), and nationalism provide the thematic underpinnings of this volume.
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,Faith, Nation, and Structure: The Diachronic Durability of Orthodox Churches in the Balkans, |
David B. Kanin |
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Those in charge of Orthodox Christian Churches have remained lashed to the national identities they nurtured, and have attempted to revive the sense that nationalism is modern and progressive—but also an essential piece of sacred time. The latter concept involves the direct perception of individual presence at, participation with, and experience of the seminal miracles, events, and state of mind produced by contact between the person in question, sacral personages of a faith, and God. The constructed, iconic past associated with sacred time in a nationalist framework is more than “theology” and anything but an anachronistic experience. Religious and nationalist entrepreneurs synchronize their visions of sacred times to harness the imaginations of the faithful and overcome local resistance to nationalism. The Orthodox Churches of the Balkans have both faith and nationalism in their tool kits and over centuries have used them to survive religious, social, economic, and political challenges—even as they have squabbled with each other.
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,Conservative Orthodoxy in Romania, |
Lucian Turcescu,Lavinia Stan |
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This chapter considers the topics of nationalism, conservatism, homophobia, and religious intolerance in the Romanian Orthodox Church (RomOC, hereafter) after the collapse of communism in 1989. This analysis begins with a brief historical overview of the Church during the pre-communist and communist periods, and then turns its attention to presenting and assessing the above topics in post-communist times.
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,The Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Authoring New Visions About the Orthodox Church’s Role in Contempora |
Daniela Kalkandjieva |
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This chapter examines the visions which have been advanced by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to expand and secure its influence in society after fall of communism. While the end of the atheist rule inspired the Church’s hierarchy to seek a restoration of the pre-communist dominant status of Orthodoxy as the majority religion, the newly adopted understanding of freedom of conscience and belief as a just and equal treatment of all religious communities impeded the realization of this goal. As a result, the promotion of the Church’s positions on the communist past, the form of political governance, nationalism, and traditional values have turned out to be a dynamic process that provokes ambivalent reactions not only in society but also in the community of Orthodox believers.
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,The Church, the Nation, and the State: The Serbian Orthodox Church After Communism, |
Jelena Subotić |
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My chapter focuses on the role the Serbian Orthodox Church has played in Serbian politics since 1989, but especially since 2000, with the end of the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milošević. Centering the discussion on four principal dimensions that capture the Serbian Church’s influence in this period—nationalism, conservatism, homophobia, and religious intolerance—this chapter pays special attention to two main social and political fault lines in post-2000 Serbia and the Church’s central role in them: the status of its LGBTQ community and the continuing contention over Kosovo’s secession. The chapter concludes that the SOC continues to serve as a political force in Serbian society—a foundational source of Serbian national identity and an organization deeply immersed in contemporary Serbian politics. It is a Church that is deeply conservative, opposed to change, and primarily interested in preserving its status and privilege in Serbian society.
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,RETRACTED CHAPTER: Orthodoxy and Antisemitism: The Relationship Between the Serbian Orthodox Church |
Francine Friedman |
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This chapter explores conflicting claims about the relationship between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Yugoslav/post-Yugoslav Jewish community. It focuses particularly on complaints about, and incidents suggesting, that there are antisemitic tendencies in contemporary Serbia, also briefly considering Republika Srpska’s record with regard to Jewish-Orthodox relations.
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,The Orthodox Church of Greece, |
Altuğ Günal,Zeynep Selin Balcı |
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The Greek Orthodox Church has a crucial role in identifying “Greekness” in a quite exclusionary manner. Today the Church combats secularization by using a religious discourse, and Westernization by using a nationalist discourse, viewing itself as the guardian of Greek identity. Aligning itself with the right and extreme right wing’s policies, it has come into conflict with leftist governments from time to time—the dispute on the removal of the religion section in the identity cards being the most serious one, there has never been a hostile stance toward the Church from any Greek political party. Having said that, the adherents of the other faiths in Greece are still deprived of many of their rights and even though tolerant voices can be heard from clergymen from time to time, the Church of Greece does not differ considerably from other Orthodox Churches in its negative approach toward LGBTQ rights.
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,The Macedonian Orthodox Church in the New Millennium, |
Zachary T. Irwin |
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This chapter examines the political challenges, potential, and environment of the Macedonian Orthodox Church during the twenty-first century. It interprets the Church’s place in shaping Macedonian identity, expressed by the idea of Church as a national “pillar,” and support of its quest for acknowledged “autocephaly,” proclaimed unilaterally in 1967. The chapter develops several themes. First, it examines the Macedonian Church’s relations with the Serbian Orthodox Church, the abortive “Niš Agreement,” and Serbian formation of a rival Orthodox entity under Bishop Jovan Vraniškovski. Second, the chapter comments on a “syndrome” of attitudes and values associated with the Macedonian Church: intolerance, homophobia, nationalism, and conservatism. The final section considers Archbishop Stefan’s offer to the Ecumenical Patriarch, to rename the Church the “Archbishopric of Ohrid,” possibly in connection with the “Prespa Accord,” resolving the “name dispute” with Greece. A conclusion speculates whether an autocephalous Macedonian Church might diminish espousal of those aforementioned values conflicting with Macedonia’s EU membership.
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,Navigating the Challenge of Liberalism: The Resurrection of the Orthodox Church in Post-Communist A |
Isa Blumi |
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Surviving the Balkans’ twentieth century was no simple task for Albanian Christians. Facing a regime of capitalism that absorbed the socialist Balkans in the 1990s, the efforts of Albanian Orthodox Christians to adapt seem inadequate. This chapter explores how one may read the struggles of the post-communist Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church that confronted the “universal” liberal enterprise in the context of the concurrent tensions within Albanian circles seeking the reaffirmation of ethno-nationalist concerns. In questioning how the rebuilding of the Church reflected an aggressive missionary approach led by Greek-born Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos, it will become clear how necessary it is to read this ongoing process of rebuilding on several institutional and ideological/spiritual planes.
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,The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia: Survival of a Minority Faith in a Secular Soci |
Frank Cibulka |
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This chapter will focus on the fortunes of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the aftermath of the collapse of the Czechoslovak communist regime in 1989 and the creation of new nation-states in Prague and Bratislava in 1993. The topic generates a special set of questions stemming from the fact that, not only does the Orthodox Church in the successor states of former Czechoslovakia represent a minority faith existing on the periphery of the post-communist societies, but it does so in the case of the Czech Republic, in one of the most secularized and atheistic countries in the world. Among the topics examined will be the strength of its membership and of its present societal role, its relationship with key governmental institutions, its leadership strife, social conservatism and religious tolerance, the impact of church restitutions, and its position on the evolving schism between the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church over the issue of granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Finally, the question of foreign influence or control over this minority Church will also have to be
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,Retraction Note to: Orthodoxy and Antisemitism: The Relationship Between the Serbian Orthodox Churc |
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