Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe: Contesting Religious Authority

by Sebastian Rimestad

Book Overview

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world.

Organised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367632535
• ISBN13: 9780367632533
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"