Religion and the Conceptual Boundary 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.

THOMAS BREMER is Professor of Ecumenical Theology (Eastern Churches) and Peace Studies in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Münster, Germany. Born in 1957, he studied Theology and Slavonic languages and has published on churches in former Yugoslavia, Russian Orthodoxy, ecumenical theology.

Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Introductory Remarks–T.Bremer * Geography, Eschatology, and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century–L.S.Chekin * Ruthenian Lands and the Early Modern Multiple Borderlands in Europe: Ethnoconfessional Aspect–L.Berezhnaya * Confessionalization in the Slavia Orthodoxa (Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia)?–A.Brüning * Situational Religiosity–E.Emeliantseva * The Chapel of the Polish Kings–R.E.Alvis * Romanian Orthodox Theologians as Pioneers of the Ecumenical Dialogue between East and West–M.Sasaujan * Peace through Reconciliation–D.Doellinger * Religiosity in European Comparison: Theoretical and Empirical Ideas–G.Pickel * Catholic Tradition and New Religious Movements–Z.Stimac * The Concept of Canonical Territory in the Russian Orthodox Church–J.Oeldemann