Eastern Christian Books

I am greatly looking forward to reading this new study which will begin filling a very considerable gap in the literature on conversion: Pr...

Not a week ago were my students insistently asking me everything I knew about the role of the evil eye in Greek Orthodox culture. I am now i...

For more than a decade now, I have used Christos Yannaras's The Freedom of Morality in my moral theology courses to good effect. There ...

I wonder if the author this book, released late last year, has suddenly realized she may need to write a second volume, devoted to the pheno...

Released at the beginning of this month is a fascinating-looking collection ranging widely over movements it is too easy to dismiss as compo...

It's striking to see what apparently is a new imprint from Cornell University Press ("NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies...

Cyprus seems to be coming in for some recent scrutiny, as a recent book, noted only last month, bears on parts of its history. Now another ...

There are certain names, by the force of their prose and the number of their books, which cannot be overlooked today, and Christos Yannaras ...

Earlier this month  I drew attention to another book published by Denise Harvey Publishers, a book that came back to mind in a conversation ...

It is of course a self-congratulatory staple of some Orthodox apologists that their tradition alone has not changed, while various Catholic ...

We are fortunate to be living in so fruitful an era when study of the many and messy encounters between Eastern Christians and Muslims conti...

I've just had a chance to finish Eugene Rogan's splendid study, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East   (Basic...

For the Greeks, Ottomans, and musicians in your life: Indiana University Press is set to release today, January 2nd, a new study that you wi...

I've met the author of this book several times at conferences, where his lectures are always both fascinating and entertaining. Much of ...

At long last we have, in the last decade, been seeing more scholarly works on Eastern Christian music. Set for release the first of next yea...

Just when I've about despaired of any further point in remaining on Facebook, with its capacity to hoover up huge amounts of time for li...

I drew attention to this collection edited by Lucian Leustean, Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Euro...

As I have repeatedly noted on here, there is much we still need to learn, or in some cases re-learn, about the encounters, varied and variou...

The Greek Church today, like most Christian bodies, seems to be riven between a reactionary and retrograde crowd (led by bishops who wrote t...

Peter Lang has recently published two books both treating Greek Orthodox Christians in the nineteenth century: Maria Mandamadiotou, The Gree...