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The Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues.

The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world.

This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief.

The title of this publication, "e;The Tradition of the Adoration of the Theotokos in the Orthodox Church,"e; implies the phenomenon of the Virgin Mary as one of the basic values of mankind.

Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological perspective of human beings as “priests of creation” in addressing the current ecological crisis.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

This intellectually discomfiting, disturbingly provocative, yet still thoroughly scholarly Handbook reproduces the intellectual ferment that accompanied the Russian Revolution including the wholly polarising effect at that time of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora.

This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture.

As English adventurer Francis Drake and his contemporaries opened up seaborne trade with Asia and the East, so dreams of untold wealth fuelled the appetites of European nations.

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine.

This is a book about the struggle of Orthodox Christianity to establish a clear identity and mission within modernity--Western modernity in particular.

This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005.

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.

This book explores origins, manifestations, and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology, a number of related discourses, metaphors, and emotions have spilled over into the mainstream debates and popular imagination.

In this fully updated edition with a new foreword by Andre Liebich, David M.

This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia.

Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class.

This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on "e;Other"e;, i.

This book explores the construction of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) identity as a social group in Georgia, framed through Tajfel and Turner's Social Identity Theory.

This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire.

The only comprehensive critical anthology of theological and historical aspects related to Florovsky's thought by an international group of leading academics and church personalities.

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Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

This book analyzes the development of the Stalinist state of the 1930s from the perspective of the changing nature of centre-local relations.

Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination.

A short walk from the glistening Nile nestled in a dusty Cairo street lies the Coptic Church of St.

The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine.

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West.

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Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic.

This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources.

During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States.

For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community.

The diaspora of scholars exiled from Russia in 1922 offered something vital for both Russian Orthodoxy and for ecumenical dialogue.

This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century.

This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War.

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The collapse of the imperial regime excited Russian intellectuals of all political persuasions.

Explores the role played by Athos in the spread of Orthodoxy and Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond.

This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the "e;Other.