Global Eastern Orthodoxy

Introduction.- Part1: Orthodoxy and Religion.- Chapter1. Orthodoxy Going Global: the Quest for Identity (Maria Hämmerli).- Chapter 2. Singing an Old Song in a New Land: How Orthodox Churches Contribute to America's Diverse Religious Landscape(Alexei Krindatch).- Chapter 3. Greek-Orthodox Cultural Heritage and its Strategic Importance to the 'Representation of the Church of Cyprus to the European Union' (Georgios E. Trantas).- Chapter 4. Where Religion Meets Politics: Orthodoxy in the Former Yugoslav States(Marko Vekovic).- Chapter 5.Orthodox Christian Diasporas in Italy: Patterns of Negotiations in a Catholic Country(Marco Guglielmi).- Chapter 6. A "Community of Young Old Believers:" Patterns of Tradition, Acculturation, and Hybridization among First-Wave Old Believers in the United States (Roy R. Robson).- Chapter 7. Old Orthodox (Old Believers) in Modern Latvia: Challenges and Perspectives (Maija Grizane).- Chapter8. The Struggles and Joys of Orthodox Diaspora in New Zealand: Cases of Russian, Serbian and Greek Churches (Anastasiya Cherkasova).- Chapter 9. The Centrality of Orthodoxy to Migrant Cultural Retention: The Case of Greeks in Germany (Eleni Tseligka).- Part2: Orthodoxy and Human Rights.- Chapter 10. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Mapping of the World (Kathy Rousselet).- Chapter 11. Orthodox Holiness against Globalization: an Essay on Drawing Borders (Alexander Agadjanian).- Chapter 12. Religion in a Participatory Democracy (Emmanuel Clapsis).- Chapter 13. Patriarch Kirill's Ideology of Russkii Mir and the Geopolitics of the Council of Crete (Paul Gavrilyuk).- Chapter 14. Intertwinement of Religious and Political Discourses in Russia: from Orthodox anti-Westernism to Political Mistrust to Europe (Ekaterina Grishaeva).- Part 3: Orthodoxy and Human Rights.- Chapter 15. Transnational

Giuseppe Giordan teaches Sociology of Religion and Religions and Human Rights at the University of Padova, Italy. From 2009 to 2013 he served as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and is co-editor of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. He is the Coordinator of the international joint PhD programme on "Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance".


Sinisa Zrinscak teaches Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He served as President of ISORECEA (International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association) in the period 2006-2014, and as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion 2013-2017. He is associate editor in the European Journal of Social
Work and is member of Editorial Boards of several peer-review journals: Social Compass, Journal of Religion in Europe, Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, etc.