Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe: Contesting Religious Authority - Paperback

by Sebastian Rimestad (Author)

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations.

Author Biography

Sebastian Rimestad is a senior researcher at the Department of Religious Studies specialising in Christianity. He is the author of The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1945) (2012), and has published numerous articles on various topics connected with Orthodox Christianity and religion in modernising societies.