ID - 131785725 TI - Global Eastern Orthodoxy AU - Giordan, Giuseppe AU - Zrinščak, Siniša AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2020 SN - 9783030286873 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Religious studies KW - Christian religion KW - Sociology KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Politics KW - orthodox christendom KW - religie KW - sociologie KW - politiek KW - globalisering UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131785725 AB - 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. ER -