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Both Insiders And Outsiders: Identity And Interreligious Dialogue In The Discourse Of Islamic Communities In Croatia And Serbia Concerning European Integration, Angela Ilić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

"The European Union has been hit hard by the international financial crisis, which has con-tributed to weakening the already precarious economies of member states such as Greece, Spain, and Portugal. Concurrently, the Union has been experiencing an identity crisis, with lack of clarity and consensus about which shared values hold the diverse states of Europe together beyond the common economic and political interests. Both processes have led to increased Euroskepticism across the continent.2 Parallel to these developments an alarming upsurge in re-ligiously and racially intolerant rhetoric and even acts of violence have occurred.

This essay presents, within the complex European …

Djurić-Milovanović'S "Double Minorities In Serbia: Distinctive Aspects Of The Religion And Ethnicity Of The Romanians In Vojvodina"- Book Review, Danijela Kracun

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"Dr. Aleksandra Djurić -Milovanović's new book, Double Minorities in Serbia, refers to that population which is both Romanian and belonging to a religious minority within the borders of Serbia’s province of Vojvodina."

Frontmatter - Volume 35 Issue 4, Paul Mojzes

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Main Stages And Facts In The History Of State-Church Relations In Bulgaria, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

State-Church relations in Bulgaria are multidimensional phenomena, bearing changes and dynamic transformations in the course of historical processes. The purpose of this paper is to map out the main stages and developments of church-state relations from Bulgaria’s acceptance of Christianity to the present.

Frontmatter - Volume 35 Issue 3, Paul Mojzes

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Religion And National Identity In Borderlands: Greek Catholics And Hungarian Reformed In Transylvania, Beth Admiraal

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How The Russian Orthodox Church Views The "Russian World", Thomas Bremer

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The cultural concept of a “Russian world” (Russian: “russkiy mir”) plays an increasingly important role today, and is not limited to political discourse. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), which officially joined the “Russian World” foundation in 2009, has frequently referred to Russkiy mir in recent discourse. The term “Russian world” refers to a culture that differentiates itself from Western culture and is superior to it. Despite ROC usage of the term, understanding of Russkiy mir is diffuse. There are still some semantic constants which occur repeatedly. The most significant of these are a) the historical aspect, b) religion or religious …

Orthodox "Imagined Communities" In The Ottoman Balkans, James R. Payton Jr

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

As a young scholar being trained in Early Modern European history, I imbibed unstated assumptions along with the canons of western historiography. My teaching and research career, though, soon moved eastward, to focus on Byzantium, the Balkans, and the Eastern Christianity which permeated both. With this transition, I became uneasily aware of how little attention western scholarship has given to these fields, or to the momentous developments which took place in the eastern half of the European continent. Some of these developments challenge and undermine some hallowed scholarly perspectives; among them is the assessment commonly held among western scholars about …

Searle And Cherenkov's "A Future And A Hope: Mission, Theological Education, And The Transformation Of Post-Soviet Society" - Book Review, Walter Sawatsky

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"Anniversary reflections on developments since the end of the Soviet Union 25 years ago have started, but rare is the book attempting an assessment of what happened to post-Soviet evangelicals."

Valčo And Slivka's "Christian Churches In Post-Communist Slovakia: Current Challenges And Opportunities" - Book Review, Lubomir M. Ondrasek

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Frontmatter - Volume 35 Issue 2, Paul Mojzes

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Be Salt On Earth: Can Evangelical Churches Make A Difference In Croatia?, Julijana Mladenovska-Tešija

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The Russian Christian Take On Putin And Ukraine, Mark R. Elliott

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The Witness Of Evangelical Communities In Contested Balkan Identities, Kostake Milkov

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In Search Of A Crisis In Croatia, Ela Magda

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Encountering The Other Through The Collective War Memory: An Orthodox Christian Discusses The Complexity Of Peace And Dialogue, Ljiljana Gehrecke

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Fostering Dialogue In A Multiethnic, Multireligious, Post-War Context In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Marko Oršolić

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The Challenges And Opportunities Of Diverse Backgrounds In The Evangelical Churches In Serbia, Branko Bjelajac

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Russian Christians And The Conflict In Ukraine, Ekaterina Smyslova

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Mediatization Of Ukrainian Protestantism In The Book Culture Epoch, Maksym Balaklytskyi

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The Roles Of Religion In Conflicts In The Former Yugoslavia, Larry A. Dunn

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Religious Issues In The Ukrainian Media After Euromaidan, Maksym Balaklytskyi

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Kyrgyzstan: "Draconian" Proposed Religion Law And Administrative Code, Mushfig Bayram

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Kazakhstan: Religious Freedom Survey, March 2014, Mushfig Bayram, John Kinahan

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Kyrgyzstan: Religious Freedom Survey, November 2014, Mushfig Bayram, John Kinahan

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Problems Of Teaching Religion In Public Schools In Bulgaria Today: Retrospective And Prospective, Nonka Bogomilova

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Religion, Public Life And The State In Putin's Russia, Alexey D. Krindatch

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Islam As A Way Of Defining The National Identity Of Bosnian Muslims, Athanasios G. Athanasiadis

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Political changes in Yugoslavia in the 1990s triggered a series of changes in the ethno-religious field. The ethnological problems faced by the residents of Bosnia formed part of more general ethnological reshuffling in former Yugoslavia, promoting idealized nations, non-existent ethnic ideologies and fabricated state designs. However, these nations already constitute part of the reshuffling of the reform of New Europe. A major part was played in the formulation of the ethnic identity of Bosnian Muslims by the Islamic Community, under unique conditions and in cooperation with the Communist Yugoslavia of Josip Broz Tito from 1945 to 1990. The description and …

Working Session 13: Tolerance And Non-Discrimination Ii/ Intolerance Against Christians And Members Of Other Religions. Hungary: New Religion Law At Variance With Osce Standards And The European Convention On Human Rights, The Osce Human Dimension Implementation Meeting

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Religion Misused By Serbs And Croats, Maja Torlo

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This research concentrates on the Christian and Orthodox religion among the Serbs and Croats in former Yugoslavia and how it contributed to the outbreak of the Serbo-Croat war in 1992. This is done by assessing the main ways in which religion was abused and twisted to raise anger, fear, and enmity between Croats and Serbs by both nationalistic leaders and Church leaders in the period from the communist rule to the outbreak in 1992. Therefore, first, the following things are assessed: the consequences of (1) identification and grouping of people along religious and ethnic lines, (2) mass religious events, which …