This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Rus
Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according t
In this book Sergey Horujy undertakes a novel comparative analysis of Foucaults theory of practices of the self and the Eastern Orthodox ascetical tradition of Hesychasm, revealing great affinity betw
Orthodox Christianity is often considered to be out-of-sync with contemporary society, locked up in a world of its own where the church gets intertwined with the state in order to claim power over peo
This book gathers a wide range of theological perspectives from Orthodox European countries, Russia and the United States in order to demonstrate how divergent the positions are within Orthodox Christ
