Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe

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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 Lord’s Army), the Doukhoborsin 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Prologue: Looking West, but Walking East: The Dilemma of Orthodoxy in a Modernising World (Meic Pearse)....Pages 1-10 Introduction: Understanding Renewal Movements in Orthodox Christianity (Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović, Radmila Radić)....Pages 11-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Ritual, Ecclesia, and the Reform of Russian Orthodoxy: The Life and Thought of Ioann Verkhovskii, 1818–1891 (James M. White)....Pages 23-45 The New Doctrines of the Doukhobor Fasters and Tolstoyism (Svetlana A. Inikova)....Pages 47-65 The ‘Renovationists’ and the Soviet State (Mikhail Vitalievich Shkarovskiy)....Pages 67-76 Maliovantsy: Orthodox Christianity and the Ukrainian ‘Evangelical’ Peasants of Late Imperial Russia (Sergei I. Zhuk)....Pages 77-102 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 The Nazarenes Among the Serbs: Proselytism and/or Dissent? (Bojan Aleksov)....Pages 105-136 The God Worshipper Movement in Serbian Society in the Twentieth Century: Emergence, Development, and Structures (Radmila Radić, Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović)....Pages 137-172 The Influence of the God Worshipper Movement on the Language Policy and Religious Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Ksenija J. Končarević)....Pages 173-189 The Prayer Chanting of the God Worshipper Movement (Dragan Ašković)....Pages 191-212 The God Worshipper Movement and Pilgrimage: Religious Revival in the Past and Present (Dragana Radisavljević-Ćiparizović)....Pages 213-227 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 The Romanian Lord’s Army: A Case Study in Eastern Orthodox Church Renewal (Corneliu Constantineanu)....Pages 231-259 The Oastea Domnului (Lord’s Army) Movement in the Serbian Banat (Mircea Măran)....Pages 261-284 The Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Greece (Amaryllis Logotheti)....Pages 285-302 The Case of the Christiyanka Journal: The Bulgarian Orthodox Charity Network and the Movement for Practical Christianity After World War I (Galina Goncharova)....Pages 303-322 Back Matter ....Pages 323-339