Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe

Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović, Radmila Radić, Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović, Radmila Radić

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319633534
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319633541
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

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 Doukhobors in 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.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Chapter 1 Prologue: Looking West, but Walking East: The Dilemma of Orthodoxy in a Modernising World
• Chapter 2 Introduction: Understanding Renewal Movements in Orthodox Christianity
• Part I Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Russia, The Soviet Union and Ukraine
• Chapter 3 Ritual, Ecclesia, and the Reform of Russian Orthodoxy: The Life and Thought of Ioann Verkhovskii, 1818–1891
• Chapter 4 The New Doctrines of the Doukhobor Fasters and Tolstoyism
• Chapter 5 The ‘Renovationists’ and the Soviet State
• Chapter 6 Maliovantsy: Orthodox Christianity and the Ukrainian ‘Evangelical’ Peasants of Late Imperial Russia
• Part II The God Worshipper Movement and Its Influence on the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Chapter 7 The Nazarenes Among the Serbs: Proselytism andor Dissent?
• Chapter 8 The God Worshipper Movement in Serbian Society in the Twentieth Century: Emergence, Development, and Structures
• Chapter 9 The Influence of the God Worshipper Movement on the Language Policy and Religious Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Chapter 10 The Prayer Chanting of the God Worshipper Movement
• Chapter 11 The God Worshipper Movement and Pilgrimage: Religious Revival in the Past and Present
• Part III Case Studies of Renewal Movements in the Orthodox Churches of Romania, Greece and Bulgaria
• Chapter 12 The Romanian Lord’s Army: A Case Study in Eastern Orthodox Church Renewal
• Chapter 13 The Oastea Domnului (Lord’s Army) Movement in the Serbian Banat
• Chapter 14 The Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Greece
• Chapter 15 The Case of the Christiyanka Journal: The Bulgarian Orthodox Charity Network and the Movement for Practical Christianity After World War I
• Index