Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the Twenty-First Century

By Alexander Agadjanian, Jerry Pankhurst, X

Book Overview

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention. While more-covered religions emerge as powerful transnational forces, Eastern Orthodoxy appears doggedly local, linked to the ethnicity and land of the now marginalized Eastern Europe. But Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age brings together new and nuanced understandings of the Orthodox churches-inside and outside of Eastern Europe-as they negotiate an increasingly networked world. The picture that emerges is less of a people stubbornly refusing modernization, more of a people seeking to maintain a stable Orthodox identity in an unstable world. For anyone interested in the role of Eastern Orthodoxy in the 21st century, this volume provides the place to begin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759105375
• ISBN13: 9780759105379
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"