Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Encounters of Faiths (Studies in Central and Eastern Europe)

This volume concentrates on the conceptual boundary through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The single articles research how this boundary has developed in different periods and epochs and in different places. They also show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Introductory Remarks....Pages 1-15 Geography, Eschatology, and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century....Pages 16-39 Ruthenian Lands and the Early Modern Multiple Borderlands in Europe: Ethno-confessional Aspect....Pages 40-65 Confessionalization in the Slavia Orthodoxa (Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia)? — Potential and Limits of a Western Historiographical Concept....Pages 66-97 Situational Religiosity: Everyday Strategies of the Moscow Christ-Faith Believers and of the St Petersburg Mystics Attracted by This Faith in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century....Pages 98-120 The Chapel of the Polish Kings: History, Religion, and the Borders of an Imagined Nation....Pages 121-145 Romanian Orthodox Theologians as Pioneers of the Ecumenical Dialogue Between East and West: The Relevance and Topicality of Their Position in Uniting Europe....Pages 146-165 Peace Through Reconciliation: Aktion Sühnezeichen and the Lutheran Church in the GDR....Pages 166-181 Religiosity in European Comparison — Theoretical and Empirical Ideas....Pages 182-214 Catholic Tradition and New Religious Movements: What Is New in the Present Religious Landscape in Croatia?....Pages 215-228 The Concept of Canonical Territory in the Russian Orthodox Church....Pages 229-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-242 This volume is about the "conceptual boundary" in Europe, a boundary determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. It researches how this boundary has developed over different periods and epochs and in different places. It also shows that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but has been subject to change and development as well as being a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures. There is no purely Western or purely Eastern Church; one has influenced the other