Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness

Introduction; Andrii Krawchuk PART I: THE ECCLESIAL SELF: TRADITIONAL IDENTITIES AND THE CHALLENGES OF PLURALISM 1. Russian Orthodoxy between State and Nation; Jennifer Wasmuth 2. Morality and Patriotism: Continuity and Change in Russian Orthodox Occidentalism since the Soviet Era; Alfons Brüning 3. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church at the Crossroads: Between Nationalism and Pluralism; Daniela Kalkandjieva 4. The Search for a new Church Consciousness in current Russian Orthodox Discourse; Anna Briskina-Müller PART II: PERCEPTIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS OTHER: DIFFERENCE AND CONVERGENCE 5. Between Admiration and Refusal – Roman Catholic Perceptions of Orthodoxy; Thomas Bremer 6. Apostolic Continuity in Contradiction to Liberalism? Fields of Tension between Churches in the East and the West; Dagmar Heller 7. The Image of the Roman-Catholic Church in the Orthodox Press of Romania, 1918-1940; Ciprian Ghi?a 8. 'Oh, East is East, and West is West…:' The Character of Orthodox – Greek-Catholic Discourse in Ukraine and its Regional Dimensions; Natalia Kochan PART III: ORTHODOX CRITIQUES OF THE WEST 9. 'The Barbarian West': A Form of Orthodox Christian Anti-Western Critique; Vasilios N. Makrides 10. Anti-western Theology in Greece and Serbia Today; Julia Anna Lis 11. The Russian Orthodox Church on the Values of Modern Society; Regina Elsner PART IV: ENCOUNTERS WITH EUROPEAN VALUES 12. Eastern Orthodoxy and the Processes of European Integration; Tina Olteanu and Dorothée de Nève 13. The Russian Orthodox Church's Interpretation of European Legal Values (1990-2011); Mikhail Zherebyatyev 14. The Russian Orthodox Church in a new Situation in Russia: Challenges and Responses; Olga Kazmina PART V: PROSPECTS FOR RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER, CONSENSUS AND COOPERATION 15. Neopatristic Synthesis and Ecumenism: Toward the 'Reintegration' of Christian Tradition; Matthew Baker 16. Justification in the Theological Conversations Between Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Protestant Churches in Germany; Christoph Mühl 17. Constructing Interreligious Consensus in the Post-Soviet Space: the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations; Andrii Krawchuk PART VI: EMERGING ENCOUNTERS AND NEW CHALLENGES IN POST-SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA 18. Muslim-Orthodox Relations in Russia: Contextual Readings of A Common Word ; Andrii Krawchuk 19. Radical Islam in the Ferghana Valley; Galina M. Yemelianova 20. Uzbek Islamic Extremists in the Civil Wars of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan: From Radical Islamic Awakening in the Ferghana Valley to Terrorism with Islamic Vocabulary in Waziristan; Michael Fredholm