<p>This annotated bibliography covers the available literature on the relationship between Soviet and Eastern European churches and the societies in which they have existed since the end of World War II. In order to shed some light on the mutual relations between the churches and society, two survey chapters provide a general orientation. The attitude of the churches toward their society is analyzed first, then the reverse is attempted with a description of the societal attitudes toward the churches. The bibliography proper first presents books and articles dealing with the entire region, the on a country-by-country basis. Because the sources dealing with the Soviet Union are most numerous, they have been broken down into materials dealing with general and inclusive religious policies and issues, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Oriental Apostolic Churches (Georgian and Armenian), the Roman Catholic Church, and the Protestants and sectarians. This bibliography is among the first to deal with the historic and current status of the Christian churches in Eastern Europe.</p>

Church and State in Postwar Eastern Europe: A Bibliographical Survey (Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies)

History

Mojzes, Paul

World

Greenwood

<p>This authoritative and comprehensive account provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of Yugoslavia and the ensuing fraticidal warfare. Based on the author's extensive travels in the region, news accounts, and the author's interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders, the book pays particular attention to the role of religion in fanning the flames of interethnic hatred.</p>

Yugoslavian Inferno: Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans

Religion & Spirituality

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Providing a balanced discussion representing different denominations, nationalities, church positions, and viewpoints, this study explores how to deal with the truth claims of other religions. Essays were written in response to Jozef Cardinal Tomko's address, "Missionary Challenges to the Theology of Salvation".

Christian Mission and Interreligious Dialogue (RELIGIONS IN DIALOGUE)

Edwin Mellen Pr

Softcover, 1978. The author led a college summer study tour of Austria, Yugoslavia & Hungary that I was on in 1978, and this was its text... so it's actually been to a Marxist country. NOT ex-library. Bx6 Ecumenical Press, Philadelphia.

Varieties of Christian-Marxist dialogue (Journal of ecumenical studies)

Ecumenical Press

After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, no-one was prepared for the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Suddenly old terms like chetnik and ustasha found new currency, and a new term surfaced – 'ethnic cleansing' – with its sickening echo of 'final solution'. The upsurge of nationalist sentiment in Eastern Europe raises the question whether the wars in the former Yugoslavia are harbingers of things to come. Will the racist idea of the ethnically pure state crush the humanist ideal of the multicultural society? Yugoslavian Inferno provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of Yugoslavia and the ensuing fratricidal warfare. It pays particular attention to the role of religion in fanning the flames of interethnic hatred and is written by a scholar uniquely placed to write it. A Yugoslavian-American with roots in both Croatia and Serbia, whose religious tradition is Protestant, rather than Catholic, Orthodox, or Muslim, Paul Mojzes is an internationally recognized authority on religion in Eastern Europe. Based on travels in the region, interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders, as well as news accounts and monographs in generally inaccessible languages, and formulated after a lifetime of scholarly achievement, Yugoslavian Inferno presents insights that only a native can provide and the critical objectivity that only an outsider can offer.

Yugoslavian Inferno: Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans (History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic)

Europe

Bloomsbury Academic

The Study of Religion in an Age of Global Dialogue

Professors of Religion, Theology and Religious Studies say: “[T]his study uniquely suggests…a dialogical approach to the study of religion and suggests a global ethic as a viable beginning.” --William Cenkner, Katharine Drexel Professor of Religion. The Catholic University of America “Both dialogue and a global ethic have been discussed elsewhere, but linking them together and then combining them with the study of religion is this book’s genuinely distinctive achievement. This accomplishment makes a major contribution to a singularly important discussion.” --Walter Conn, Professor Theology and Religious Studies. Villanova University Religion is the most fundamental and comprehensive of all human activities. It tries to make sense out of not simply one or another aspect of human life, but all aspects of human experience. At the core of every civilization lies its religion, which both reflects and shapes it. Thus, if we wish to understand human life in general and our specific culture and history, we need to understand religion. What is religion? As this comprehensive work shows, religion is an explanation of the ultimate meaning of life and how to live accordingly, based on a notion of the Transcendent. Normally it contains the four “C’s”: Creed, Code of behavior, Cult and Community-structure. A new age in human consciousness is now dawning: The Age of Global Dialogue, a radically new consciousness which fundamentally shifts the ways we understand everything in life, including religion. This global dialogical way of understanding life does not lead to one global religion, but it does lead toward a consciously acknowledged common set of ethical principles, a Global Ethic. This book looks at these two movements—the Age of Global Dialogue and inchoative Global Ethic—in order to help readers understand what is going on around them, so they might make informed, intelligent decisions about the meaning of life and how to live it. Professor Leonard Swidler is a global theologian who has pioneered and contributed to the field of interfaith dialogue for more than 50 years. He is a professor of religion at Temple University since 1966 and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and the founder of the Dialogue Institute. He has written more than 200 papers and 90 books. Dr. Swidler has contributed to establishing the theoretical foundations of global ethics with Hans Küng since the 1990s, and the Dialogue Decalogue, his proposed interfaith dialogue has been translated into many languages. It is described as the most convincing theoretical basis for conducting Dialogue. Paul Mojzes, PhD was the Provost and the Chair of the Religious Studies and Humanities Department at Rosemont College, in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. A native of Yugoslavia, Dr. Mojzes is the co-editor of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and founder and co-editor of Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe. He is the author of six books including his most recent Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century. Dr. Mojzes has lectured at universities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Politics & Social Sciences

Swidler, Leonard

Sociology

Ipub Global Connection,LLC

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