Tobias Köllner is assistant professor at the Witten/Herdecke University and board member in the Centre for Research on Transformation at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

• 1. Introduction – On Multiple Secularisms and Entanglements: Orthodox Religion and Politics in contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond - Tobias Köllner2. Symphonia and the Historical Relationship between State and Church: Legacies from Byzantine Times until Today - Daniel Jianu3. ‘Proud to be Orthodox’: Religion and Politics during the 2014 presidential elections in Romania - Lucian Cîrlan4. The Temple Mount Comparison – A new Paradigm of the Relationship between State and Church? - Marten Stahlberg5. A Resilient Harmony, or How the Politics of Social Inequality in Post-Soviet Russian Society Have Informed Orthodox Parish Life - Detelina Tocheva6. National Heroes, Martyrs of the Faith and Martyrs of the People: Mixing Political and Religious Discourse in the Post-Communist Romanian Orthodox Religious Education Textbooks - Ana Raluca Bîgu7. The Shifts Between: Multiple Secularisms, Multiple Modernities and the Post-Soviet School - Agata Ładykowska8. Religious Education in Russian School: The False Symphony - Anna Ozhiganova9. The Dichotomy between Europeanisation and the Revival of Moldovan Orthodoxy: The Strategy of the Moldovan Orthodox Church in Relation to Equality Legislation - Romanița Iordache10. Between Europeanisation and the Russian-Georgian Brotherhood: Nationalism, Orthodoxy, and Geopolitics of the Georgian Church - Nutsa Batiashvili11. The End of the Pro-Orthodox Consensus: Religion as a New Cleavage in Russian Society - Dmitry Uzlaner12. Guided by a ‘Symphony of Views’: The Russian Orthodox Church’s Role in Building Russia’s Symbolic Capital - Alicja Curanović13. Surrendering to Public Pressure: The ‘Macedonian Orthodox Church’ and the Rejection of the Niš Agreement in 2002 - Nenad Živković14. Orthodox Christianity and State/Politics Today: Factors to Take into Account - Vasilios N. Makrides

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