Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies Series

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.

1. Introductory:  Understanding Renewal Movements in Orthodox Christianity 

2. Ritual, Ecclesia, and the Reform of Russian Orthodoxy: The Life and Thought of Ioann Verkhovskii, 1818–91    

3. The New Doctrines of the Dukhoborite Fasters and Tolstoianism         

4. The ‘Renovationists’ and the Soviet State

5. Maliovantsy: Orthodox Christianity and the Ukrainian ‘Evangelical’ Peasants of Late Imperial Russia    

6. The Nazarenes among the Serbs: Proselytism and/or Dissent?

7. The God Worshipper Movement in Serbian Society in the 20th Century: Emergence, Development, and Structures

9. The Prayer Chanting of the God Worshipper Movement         

10. The God Worshipper Movement and Pilgrimage: Religious Revival in the Past and Present   

11. The Romanian Lord’s Army: A Case Study in Eastern Orthodox Church Renewal         

12. The Oastea Domnului (Lord’s Army) Movement in the Serbian Banat

13. The Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe and Its Influence on 20th-century Greece         

Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović  is a research fellow focusing on the anthropology of religion and church history at the Institute for Balkan Studies – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.  

 Radmila R. Radić, is a research professor and historian at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia. 

Fills a gap in the studies on Orthodox Christianity in Europe

Interdisciplinary and inter-regional influences, as well as in-depth and contextualized studies of specific case studies

Explains the novelty of the renewal movements research in Christianity worldwide

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras