Eastern Christian Books

I'm greatly looking forward to reading a book just published last week, and to interviewing its author. That book is  Between Heaven and...

That dreary class of human beings called American political pundits has already been aflutter for some time wondering about (and in some mor...

When I teach, as I do every semester, my course on Eastern Christian encounters with Islam, I love the time we spend on Russia for it gives ...

It is, perhaps, an "Orientalist" mentality that leads some to assume the "ethnic" churches of the East never bother with...

The attraction that Mt. Athos poses recently to a lot of people, including American journalists , is actually nothing new. It has long roots...

To my surprise, when perusing the new releases from Columbia University Press--which has not hitherto been a prominent or regular publisher ...

Scott Kenworthy writes deeply learned, but accessible and always fascinating,  books on Russian Orthodox Christianity that are always worth...

I almost avoided posting this notice of a forthcoming book for I am beyond tired of certain people traducing Soviet history in their transpa...

The complex realities of Muslim-Orthodox interactions in Russia continue to fascinate, and to repay careful study. A recent book builds on a...

In the late 1990s I worked as research assistant to a professor, David Perrin, who was writing an historical and philosophical analysis of t...

The great University of Notre Dame Press just sent me advance page proofs of a book set for release in October: D.P. Deavel and J.H. Wilson,...

My students, being American, always comment on their puzzlement at Russians who identify as Orthodox but rarely if ever darken the door of a...

As I noted on here recently, we have seen, and are still seeing, a slew of books on post-Soviet religiosity in Eastern Europe. Released earl...

I have been delighted to be asked to contribute to several Oxford handbooks and collections over the last few years. But even before doing s...

I've only heard a couple of papers at conferences over the years about Inochentism, so I'm no expert, but it has always fascinated m...

Having very recently drawn attention to a new book about the Old Believers, I am pleased to see they and their plight are getting more atten...

Growing up in Canada in the 1980s, I well recall several history classes in which we discussed the arrival of various immigrant groups, the ...

Old Believers have long been on my list of interesting groups I should like to investigate more fully when the time allows. Robert Crummey...

It is hard for me to believe that we are coming on the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Gorbache...

I have met the author of this forthcoming book several times at conferences over the years, and she is a lovely human being whose papers are...