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At The Crossroads: The History Of The Greek-Catholic Church In Lithuania, Francesco La Rocca

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Continuity In Charismata: Swedish Mission And The Growth Of Neo-Pentecostal Churches In Russia, Torbjorn Aronson

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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A Brief Pre-History Of Caree, Charles C. West

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Report On Hungary's Deregistered Churches, H. David Baer

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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In Praise Of Saints Paul (Peachey And Mojzes), James Will

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Lessons From Protestant Missions To Russia, Donald M. Fairbairn Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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"Smuggling Bibles": Everyday Life Of Baptist Serbs In Communist Romania, Aleksandra Djuriæ-Milovanoviæ

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Ree And Caree: A Retrospective, James R. Payton Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Moral Guardian Or Kenotic Servant? A Theological View On The Role Of Churches In Empowering Civil Society In Ukraine, Heleen Zorgdrager

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Possible Impact Of Orthodox Perspectives On Secular Europe And Human Rights, Philip Walters

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Tenuous Bridges Over The Iron Curtain: Mennonite Central Committee Work In Eastern Europe From 1966 To 1991, Mark Jantzen

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Glimpses Behind The Curtain - Surveillance And Pressure During Church Delegation Visits, Walter Sawatsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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The Ecumenical Activities Of The Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Reasons, Motivations, Consequences, Momchil Metodiev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Frazee's "Christian Churches Of The Eastern Mediterranean", Patrick Connelly

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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"Christian World Community And The Cold War" Projects Statement, Norman A. Hjelm

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Between Active Opposition, Dialogue And Loyalty: Churches In The German Democratic Republic 1970-1989/90, Katharina Kunter

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

When we survey the situation in East Germany during the Cold War we find at the beginning of the decade of the 1980s an increasingly deteriorating economic situation. The GDR’s growing indebtedness to the West, the restriction of its imports and widely felt shortages of food and other goods made for a desolate economic situation. Demoralization and resignation dominated the emotional tone of the country, drawing a large part of the population into a sort of “collective depression.”One consequence of this was the increasing number of people who sought to leave the GDR and relocate in the Federal Republic of …

The Evangelical Churches In The Gdr And Their Participation In East-West Cooperation, Christa Grengel

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The Evangelical Regional Churches in the GDR had to deal with the problem that they experienced directly living on the borderline between East and West which divided their own country. They understood this situation to be the result of National-Socialism and World War II, confessed to having been partly responsible for it and became convinced, therefore, that they had a unique responsibility for reconciliation and for overcoming this division on the borderline between the great power blocs. Based on the shared notion of “Christianity in Germany” all Evangelical Regional Churches remained parts of a pan-German institution, the “Evangelical Church in …

Democratic Orientations Among Adolescents In Aspiring And Established Democracies, Natallia Sianko

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Democratic citizen orientation - support for democratic principles and values - appears an important ingredient in making democracies work. However, there is no agreement as to what attitudes and behaviors make up a democratic citizen orientation. The main goals of this dissertation are to: (1) identify and describe factors that characterize adolescents' democratic orientation, (2) explore cross-cultural variation in democratic orientations among adolescents in established and aspiring democracies, (3) investigate the relationship between adolescents' democratic orientations and historical legacies of their countries, (4) investigate the relationship between adolescents' democratic orientations and the current quality of democratic institutions, and (5) analyze …

Religious Revitalization Among Bulgarians During And After The Communist Time, Dr. Velislav Altanov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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A Place Of Uncertainty

Syracuse University Magazine

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The Post-Communist Way: Negotiating A New National Identity In Hungary, Sarah Fabian

Honors Scholar Theses

The riots of 2006 were the most violent clash between civilians and the state that Hungary witnessed since the 1956 Revolution. Why is Hungary still struggling with political legitimacy and economic structural problems twenty years after the 1989 democratic transition to democracy and free-market economy?

Building on the model of partial reform equilibrium proposed by Joel Hellman, I argue that Hungary’s “negotiated revolution,” ironically failed to negotiate a new national identity and complete the transition, as vested interest groups were successful in blocking needed political, economic and social reforms. The former Communist elite who were still in key government posts …

Kazakstan: Restrictions On And Punishment For Spreading Religious Literature And Faith, Mushfig Bayram

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Filo's "Christian World Community And The Cold War: International Christian Conference In Bratislava On 5-8 September 2001" - Book Review, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Examining The Challenges To The Anti-Human-Trafficking Movement In Russia, Stephen Alexander Barton

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This paper examines the success of the anti-human trafficking movement in curbing the enslavement and trade of Russians to other parts of the country and world. This paper outlines how and why human trafficking is a major human rights and security issue for Russia and the “destination” countries to which traffickers send their victims. The anti-trafficking movement in Russia, which gained strength in the late 1990s through grassroots organization and international backing, successfully lobbied the Russian government to pass the country’s first anti-trafficking legislation in 2003. This paper analyzes the many challenges this law has faced, while also focusing particularly …

The Financial Consequences Of Turkey’S Potential Accession Into The European Union, Onur Can Ozer

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Turkey, with a population of nearly 74 million and a strategic location opening up to Europe, Middle East, North Africa, and East Asian markets, has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world in the present day. Having recorded a GDP growth with a level of 11% in the first half of 2011, Turkey was regarded to have the fastest growing industry in Europe. Turkey’s accession talks have been around since 1950s and have been official when Turkey became an associate member of the EU in 1963. Although Turkey has made a remarkable progress in the last decade, …

Dirty War: Across Borders And Generations, Robert Douglas Solonick

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The term “dirty war” has been applied to various periods of political violence and armed conflict around the world: the dirty wars of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, the dirty war in Chechnya, and even the dirty war in Israel. Yet, given its broad spectrum of application, there is no established definition explaining what a dirty war is. These conflicts all titled “dirty wars” occur in different times, different locations, and for different reasons. Such ambiguous use of this term in such different environments is extremely confusing.

This project set out to establish a working definition for …

News From Kazakhstan - Christians In Kazakhstan Take Position On Changes To Law On Religion, The Union Of Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches In Kazakhstan

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The quarterly magazine Aquila (Oct-Dec. 2011) carried the following open letter in German translation. It is the communication arm of a relief organization, also named Aquila, begun in the 1980s, which maintains relief and missionary assistance for its partner churches in central Asia and Siberia, and also prints historical documents and reports for the Russian-Germans who emigrated from the USSR to Germany (1987-1993). The open letter, printed below, is unusual, but signals the degree to which legislation on religion in Kazakhstan that recently went into effect, also creates great concern among Evangelical Christian Baptist churches who have maintained a legal …

The Lutheran Church And Society In Slovakia During The Cold Wars, Július Filo

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This paper explores how and to what extent the Lutheran Church in Slovakia living and seeking to fulfill its mission in a socialist political context governed by the Communist party was encouraged or sustained by its involvement in the global Christian community. Our church was a founding member of the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation and the Conference of European Churches. During the years of the Cold War our church was able to maintain contact with churches and Christians on the other side of the global political divide through other Christian bodies as well, like the “Gustav …

Two Open Letters From Hungary, David Baer

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Mahmutæehajiæ'S "Maintaining The Sacred Center: The Bosnian City Of Stolac By Maintaining The Sacred Center", David Fideler Phd

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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