Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: The Transformations of a Religious Tradition (Routledge Studies in Religion) - Softcover

Roudometof, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138307521 ISBN 13: 9781138307520

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive contribution to the relationship between religion and globalization, as well as the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and the sociology of religion - and more broadly, the interdisciplinary field of Religious Studies. While deeply engaged with history, this book does not simply narrate the history of Orthodox Christianity as a world religion, nor does it address theological issues or cover all the individual trajectories of each subgroup or subdivision of the faith. Orthodox Christianity is the object of the analysis, but author Victor Roudometof speaks to a broader audience interested in culture, religion, and globalization. Roudometof argues in favor of using globalization instead of modernization as the main theoretical vehicle for analyzing religion, displacing secularization in order to argue for multiple hybridizations of religion as a suitable strategy for analyzing religious phenomena. It offers Orthodox Christianity as a test case that illustrates the presence of historically specific but theoretically distinct glocalizations, applicable to all faiths.

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VICTOR ROUDOMETOF is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cyprus. He has also held positions with Princeton University, the American College of Thessaloniki (Greece), and Washington and Lee University & Miami University (USA). He is the author or editor of 17 books and edited volumes on culture, religion, nationalism, and globalization. For more information, see www.roudometof.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138307521
• ISBN 13: 9781138307520
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
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