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3 days ago · Because of the historical links of Eastern Orthodoxy with the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium (Constantinople), however, in English usage it is referred to as the “Eastern” or “Greek Orthodox” Church. These terms are sometimes misleading, especially when applied to Russian or Slavic churches and to the Orthodox communities in western ...
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2 days ago · Nevertheless, Orthodoxy continued to flourish in Russia, as well as within the Ottoman Empire among the latter's Christian subject peoples. As the Ottoman Empire declined in the 19th century and several majority-Orthodox nations regained their independence, they organized a number of new autocephalous Orthodox churches in Southern and Eastern Europe.
Sep 25, 2024 · Footnote 23 Post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy was characterized by a multitude of identities and a high degree of ambivalence and multivocality, oscillating between freedom and control, nationalism and transnationalism, conveying different images of itself to believers, the Russian state, global Orthodoxy, and international politics.
Sep 23, 2024 · It’s all rather ironic considering that what later became Russian Orthodoxy first emerged in 10th-century Kyiv, when Moscow was nothing but a swamp and a state named Russia still centuries away.
Sep 25, 2024 · The problem of privileging ‘good’ Russian Orthodoxy over ‘bad’ Russian Orthodoxy even appears in Tolstaya’s special issue of Religion, State & Society dedicated to ‘heterogeneity, complexity, and dynamics in the Russian Orthodox Church’ (2020). There, some scholars still seek to make Russian Orthodoxy one thing and not another, e.g. to make Russian Orthodoxy less anti-western and ...
Sep 25, 2024 · In fact, Eastern Orthodoxy has been both the ‘object’ and the ‘subject’ of colonising processes. The main predominantly Orthodox culture that has been connected to such developments, both historically and at present, is Russia, especially due to its geographical position between Europe and Asia.
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Sep 25, 2024 · Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought Eastern Orthodoxy into a spotlight both within and outside the areas of its traditional presence, not least due to the widely publicised deployment of religious rhetoric, imagery, and symbolism by political actors, as well as institutional conflicts and tensions within and between national churches.
