Orthodoxy Books

New and Published Books

1. Believing in Russia - Religious Policy after Communism

   By Geraldine Fagan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book presents a comprehensive overview of religious policy in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life. It reveals how religious freedom in Russia has, contrary to the widely held view, a...

   Published October 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Origin of Heresy

   A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

   By Robert M. Royalty

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Orthodox Christian World

   Edited by Augustine Casiday

   Series: Routledge Worlds

   Over the last century unprecedented numbers of Christians from traditionally Orthodox societies migrated around the world. Once seen as an ‘oriental’ or ‘eastern’ phenomenon, Orthodox Christianity is now much more widely dispersed, and in many parts of the modern world one need not go far to find...

   Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. The Possibility of Christian Philosophy

   Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy

   By Adam C. English

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   This is the first to book to explore Blondel's entire body of work and provides an introduction to his life and writings and their relevance to the debates surrounding the radical orthodoxy identity. Detailing Blondel's impressive research output during the first half of the twentieth...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy

   By Alicja Curanović

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book examines how religion interacts with Russian foreign policy, arguing that religion is an important and neglected factor in shaping Russia’s outlook towards international relations. It surveys the importance of religion in Russian social life - past and present - and considers the range of...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy

   A Critical Inquiry

   By Paul DeHart

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945-91

   Edited by Lucian Leustean

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant. This book examines the often surprising relations between Orthodox churches and political regimes. It provides a comprehensive overview of...

   Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge
8. Russian Society and the Orthodox Church

   Religion in Russia after Communism

   By Zoe Knox

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism,...

   Published August 13th 2009 by Routledge
9. Popular Religion in Russia

   'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth

   By Stella Rock

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. Truth in Aquinas

    Edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock

    Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

    Provocative and sophisticated, Truth in Aquinas is a fascinating re-evaluation of a key area - truth - in the work of Thomas Aquinas. John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock's provocative but strongly argued position is that many of the received views of Aquinas as philosopher and theologian are...

    Published November 1st 2000 by Routledge