Eastern Christian Books

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

This collection, set for release in early August, features the respected historian  Barbara Skinner and a series of other international expe...

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...

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...

We live in an era that has suddenly rediscovered the problems of nationalism it seems. For those of us in the Christian East, this has been ...

Much has been made of resurgent Russian nationalism over the last two decades, outbreaks of which are in part behind the invasion of Ukraine...

In my courses on Eastern Christian encounters with Islam, we look at Russia, both because it is fascinating in itself (not least as the larg...

A new book from Serhii Plokhii always commands attention, and rightly so. Author of various and well-received studies on the history of Ukra...

With chapters on two countries with large Orthodox Churches--Russia and Finland--as well as numerous other interesting chapter, this forthco...

I yield nothing to nobody in my respect for Russian Orthodox Christian traditions--the staggering architectural beauty of her churches, the...