Author: Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović File Type: pdf This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity. The movements of religious renewal among Orthodox believers appeared almost simultaneously in different areas of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and during the first decades of the twentieth century. This volume examines what could be defined as renewal movement in Eastern Orthodox traditions. Some case studies include the God Worshippers in Serbia, religious fraternities in Bulgaria, the Zoe movement in Greece, the evangelical movement among Romanian Orthodox believers known as Oastea Domnului (The Lords Army), the Doukhobors in Russia, and the Maliovantsy in Ukraine. This volume provides a new understanding of processes of change in the spiritual landscape of Orthodox Christianity and various influences such as other non-Orthodox traditions, charismatic leaders, new religious practices and rituals. **Review Capturing a diversity of renewal movements from across the Orthodox world, this volume offers a unique contribution to the study of Eastern Orthodoxy and its encounter with modernity. The movements discussed here are unstudied and little understood both within the region and more broadly. This volume is especially welcome as, by bringing together the work of esteemed scholars from across the region, it facilitates for the first time comparative conversations on the nature and processes of Orthodox renewal in Eastern Europe. (James A. Kapalo, University College Cork, Ireland) I was impressed by several outstanding features of this volume its thematic scope and diversity its novelty expertise and reliability of the scholarseditors writing individual chapters, as well as the thematic harmony and balance achieved despite a very heterogeneous set of topics. I do not remember that such a variety of renewal movements from South Eastern Europe has been tackled in a single volume. One of the major strengths of this work is its interdisciplinary scope and international appeal. This is inherent in its versatile contents and the participation of an international group of esteemed scholars in their respective fields of research. Although the number of books and studies covering the area of Eastern Orthodox Christianity has increased since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there is still a huge deficit in the respective academic research concerning specialized topics such as this. (Milan Vukomanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia) From the Back Cover This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity. The movements of religious renewal among Orthodox believers appeared almost simultaneously in different areas of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and during the first decades of the twentieth century. This volume examines what could be defined as renewal movement in Eastern Orthodox traditions. Some case studies include the God Worshippers in Serbia, religious fraternities in Bulgaria, the Zoe movement in Greece, the evangelical movement among Romanian Orthodox believers known as Oastea Domnului (The Lords Army), the Doukhobors in Russia, and the Maliovantsy in Ukraine. This volume provides a new understanding of processes of change in the spiritual landscape of Orthodox Christianity and various influences such as other non-Orthodox traditions, charismatic leaders, new religious practices and rituals.

Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto File Type: pdf Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see itwith the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the worlds leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century the environmental convulsions the interplay of ideas (good and bad) the cultural phases and exchanges the collisions and collaborations in politics the successions of states and empires the unlocking of energy the evolutions of economies the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit. **Review Are you intellectually curious, but very busy? Would you have liked to understand the biggest questions about the history of the last 200,000 years, but you dont have the time required to read 97 different fat books to tell you the answers? Are you looking for just one book that will summarize it all? Then THIS IS YOUR BOOK! Its exciting, up-to-date, and well-written. Youll love it! --Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The World Until Yesterday Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and his gifted team have produced the world history for our times, ecologically oriented, written from multiple standpoints and informed by systematic comparison. --Peter Burke, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge About the Author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto was an undergraduate and graduate student at Oxford where he was a member of the Modern History Faculty before moving to chairs in the University of London, Tufts University, and, finally, the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the William P. Reynolds Chair for Mission in Arts and Letters. His work, which has covered many fields and disciplines, has won him numerous awards, including the John Carter Brown Medal, a World History Association Book Prize, and, most recently, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, Spains highest award for services to education and the arts.