Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe

Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović  is a research fellow focusing on the anthropology of religion and church history at the Institute for Balkan Studies – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.  Radmila R. Radić, is a research professor and historian at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.

• 1. Introductory:  Understanding Renewal Movements in Orthodox Christianity.- 2. Ritual, Ecclesia, and the Reform of Russian Orthodoxy: The Life and Thought of Ioann Verkhovskii, 1818–91.- 3. The New Doctrines of the Dukhoborite Fasters and Tolstoianism.- 4. The ‘Renovationists’ and the Soviet State.- 5. Maliovantsy: Orthodox Christianity and the Ukrainian ‘Evangelical’ Peasants of Late Imperial Russia.- 6. The Nazarenes among the Serbs: Proselytism and/or Dissent?.- 7. The God Worshipper Movement in Serbian Society in the 20th Century: Emergence, Development, and Structures.- 8. The Influence of 19th- and 20th-century Religious Renewal Movements on the Language Policy and Religious Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church.- 9. The Prayer Chanting of the God Worshipper Movement.- 10. The God Worshipper Movement and Pilgrimage: Religious Revival in the Past and Present.-11. The Romanian Lord’s Army: A Case Study in Eastern OrthodoxChurch Renewal.- 12. The Oastea Domnului (Lord’s Army) Movement in the Serbian Banat.- 13. The Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe and Its Influence on 20th-century Greece.- 14. The Case of the Christiyanka Journal: The Bulgarian Orthodox Charity Network and the Movement for Practical Christianity after World War I.- 15. Epilogue: Looking West, but Walking East: the Dilemma of Orthodoxy in a Modernising World.

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