Sociology and Eastern Orthodoxy

McMylor, Peter; McMylor,; Vorozhishcheva, Maria; Parry, Ken

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“…Such a perspective fails to incorporate the cultural dimension of religion (Besecke, 2005) and offers instead a theoretical model that naturalizes Western cultural specificity. When considering Orthodox Christianity, this model's limits become apparent (see McMylon and Vorozhishcheva, 2007). For example, in the classification system generally in use in North America and Western Europe, Christianity is divided into Western (Protestant and Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Oriental and Orthodox).…”

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The glocalizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Roudometof

2012

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article introduces the notion of multiple glocalizations as a means of analysing Christianity's historical record and argues that multiple glocalizations are constitutive of the intertwining between religion and historical globalization. It proposes that four concrete forms of glocalization can be observed: vernacularization, indigenization, nationalization and transnationalization. Each of these offers different combinations of universal religiosity and local particularism. The salience of this interpretation is demonstrated through a cursory analysis of the historical record of Christianity's fragmentation. It is argued that the very construction of distinct religious traditions (Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism) is an expression of this broader process. Finally, the historical record of Eastern Orthodox Christianity is examined in order to provide for additional historical instances of these forms of glocalization.

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The glocalizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Roudometof

2012

European Journal of Social Theory

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Eastern Orthodoxy and Europe

Fokas

2021

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

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This chapter considers the relationship between ‘Orthodoxies’ and ‘Europes’, highlighting the multiplicity of Eastern Christian Orthodox approaches and attitudes towards Europe, from one majority Orthodox national context to another and one historical period to another, ranging from anti-Europeanism (and anti-Westernism) to Europhilism. It also draws attention to differences in Orthodox stances on the idea of Europe, on the one hand, and the political reality of the European unification project, on the other. A temporal perspective is particularly relevant in changing attitudes to the European Union. Special attention is paid to external perspectives on the relationship between ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Europe’, often politicized and influenced by the political turmoil in the Balkans. The chapter closes with reference to the situation of flux characterizing contemporary conceptions of Europe, and the impact of the latter on ‘Orthodoxy’ in relation to ‘Europe’.

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Sociology and Eastern Orthodoxy

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The glocalizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

The glocalizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Eastern Orthodoxy and Europe

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