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Global Eastern Orthodoxy

Politics, Religion, and Human Rights

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Editors:
  1. Giuseppe Giordan

    1. University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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  2. Siniša Zrinščak

    1. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  • Brings together a group of top scholars on an understudied topic
  • Fills a gap in the literature on the role and place of Orthodox Christianity in the process of globalization
  • Looks at new geographical regions traditionally not considered as part of the Orthodox world

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction. Global Eastern Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics and Human Rights

    • Giuseppe Giordan, Siniša Zrinščak
    Pages 1-9

  3. Human Rights Between Religion and Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Orthodox Christianity and Modern Human Rights: Theorising Their Nexus and Addressing Orthodox Specificities

      • Vasilios N. Makrides
      Pages 13-39

    3. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Global World

      • Kathy Rousselet
      Pages 41-57

    4. The Russian Orthodox Church’s Approach to Human Rights

      • Kristina Stoeckl
      Pages 59-76

    5. The Great and Holy Council and the Orthodox Churches in the Public Sphere

      • Emmanuel Clapsis
      Pages 77-99

    6. Religion and Human Rights in Greece

      • Effie Fokas
      Pages 101-124

    7. Religious Freedom in Context: A Comparison Between Belarus and Romania

      • Olga Breskaya, Silviu Rogobete
      Pages 125-148

    8. Greek-Cypriot Religiocultural Heritage as an Indicator of Fundamental Rights and a Means to Cultural Diplomacy

      • Georgios E. Trantas
      Pages 149-171

  4. Orthodox Diaspora and Identity in the Global World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Orthodoxy Going Global: The Quest for Identity

      • Maria Hämmerli
      Pages 175-192

    3. Singing an Old Song in a New Land: Orthodox Christian Churches in the Twenty-First Century America

      • Alexei Krindatch
      Pages 193-218

    4. Orthodox Christianity in a Western Catholic Country

      • Marco Guglielmi
      Pages 219-240

    5. Greek Diaspora in Germany: Church as the Ecclesia’s Forerunner and Point of Reference

      • Eleni D. Tseligka
      Pages 241-258

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 259-264
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About this book

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights. The chapters in Part I address the challenges of modern human rights discourse to Orthodox Christianity and examine conditions for active presence of Orthodox churches in the public sphere of plural societies. It suggests theoretical and empirical considerations about the relationship between politics and Orthodoxy by exploring topics such as globalization, participatory democracy, and the linkage of religious and political discourses in Russia, Greece, Belarus, Romania, and Cyprus. Part II looks at the issues of diaspora and identity in global Orthodoxy, presenting cases from Switzerland, America, Italy, and Germany. In doing so, the book ties in with the growing interest resulting from the novelty of socio-political, economic, and cultural changes which have forced religious groups and organizations to revise and redesign their own institutional structures, practices, and agendas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Giuseppe Giordan

  • University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Siniša Zrinščak

About the editors

Giuseppe Giordan teaches Sociology of Religion and Religions and Human Rights at the University of Padova, Italy. From 2009 to 2013 he served as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and is co-editor of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. He is the Coordinator of the international joint PhD programme on “Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance”.



Siniša Zrinščak teaches Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He served as President of ISORECEA (International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association) in the period 2006-2014, and as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion 2013-2017. He is associate editor in the European Journal of Social
Work and is member of Editorial Boards of several peer-review journals: Social Compass, Journal of Religion in Europe, Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, etc.

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