Global Eastern Orthodoxy: Politics, Religion, and Human Rights

Introduction.- Part1: Orthodoxy and Religion.- Chapter1. Orthodoxy Going Global: the Quest for Identity (Maria Hämmerli).- Chapter 2. Singing an Old Song in a New Land: How Orthodox Churches Contribute to America's Diverse Religious Landscape(Alexei Krindatch).- Chapter 3. Greek-Orthodox Cultural Heritage and its Strategic Importance to the 'Representation of the Church of Cyprus to the European Union' (Georgios E. Trantas).- Chapter 4. Where Religion Meets Politics: Orthodoxy in the Former Yugoslav States(Marko Vekovic).- Chapter 5.Orthodox Christian Diasporas in Italy: Patterns of Negotiations in a Catholic Country(Marco Guglielmi).- Chapter 6. A "Community of Young Old Believers:" Patterns of Tradition, Acculturation, and Hybridization among First-Wave Old Believers in the United States (Roy R. Robson).- Chapter 7. Old Orthodox (Old Believers) in Modern Latvia: Challenges and Perspectives (Maija Grizane).- Chapter 8. The Struggles and Joys of Orthodox Diaspora in New Zealand: Cases of Russian, Serbian and Greek Churches (Anastasiya Cherkasova).- Chapter 9. The Centrality of Orthodoxy to Migrant Cultural Retention: The Case of Greeks in Germany (Eleni Tseligka).- Part2: Orthodoxy and Human Rights.- Chapter 10. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Mapping of the World (Kathy Rousselet).- Chapter 11. Orthodox Holiness against Globalization: an Essay on Drawing Borders (Alexander Agadjanian).- Chapter 12. Religion in a Participatory Democracy (Emmanuel Clapsis).- Chapter 13. Patriarch Kirill's Ideology of Russkii Mir and the Geopolitics of the Council of Crete (Paul Gavrilyuk).- Chapter 14. Intertwinement of Religious and Political Discourses in Russia: from Orthodox anti-Westernism to Political Mistrust to Europe (Ekaterina Grishaeva).- Part 3: Orthodoxy and Human Rights.- Chapter 15. Transnational Aspects of the Russian Orthodox Debate on Human Rights (Kristina Stöckl).- Chapter 16. Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights: Local Problems, Global Challenges, Glocal Developments (Vasilios N. Makrides).- Chapter 17. Discovering Unity in Diversity as the Reality of a Global Church at the Pan-Orthodox Council of Crete, 2016: Identifying Possibilities for Orthodox Christian Contributions to Contemporary Human Rights Challenges (Elizabeth H. Prodromou).- Chapter 18. Is the Notion of Human Rights Compatible with the Orthodox Concept of Personhood? The Assessment of Human Rights by the Russian Orthodox Church (Sergey Trostyanskiy).- Chapter 19. Humility, Dignity and Economy: Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church Practices and the Logic of Human Rights (Ivan Zabaev).- Chapter 20. Religious Freedom in Context: A Comparison between Belarus and Romania, Olga Breskaya (Silviu Rogobete).