Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe

ROBERT E. ALVIS History Department, St Meinrad School of Theology, USALILIYA BEREZHNAYA Historian, formerly Gerda Henkel Fellow, Münster, GermanyALFONS BRÜNING Institute for Eastern Churches Studies, Nijmegen University, The NetherlandsLEONID S. CHEKIN Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, RussiaDAVID DOELLINGER Department of History, Western Oregon University, USAEKATERINA EMELIANTSEVA Department of Eastern European History, Zurich University, SwitzerlandJOHANNES OELDEMANN Johann-Adam-Moehler-Institute for Ecumenics, Paderborn, GermanyGERT PICKEL Cultural Sociology, Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder, GermanyMIHAI SASAUJAN Chair of Church History, Bucharest University, RomaniaZRINKA STIMAC Graduate School, Jena University, Germany

• Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Introductory Remarks; T.Bremer Geography, Eschatology, and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century; L.S.Chekin Ruthenian Lands and the Early Modern Multiple Borderlands in Europe: Ethnoconfessional Aspect; L.Berezhnaya Confessionalization in the Slavia Orthodoxa (Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia)?; A.Brüning Situational Religiosity; E.Emeliantseva The Chapel of the Polish Kings; R.E.Alvis Romanian Orthodox Theologians as Pioneers of the Ecumenical Dialogue between East and West; M.Sasaujan Peace through Reconciliation; D.Doellinger Religiosity in European Comparison: Theoretical and Empirical Ideas; G.Pickel Catholic Tradition and New Religious Movements; Z.Stimac The Concept of Canonical Territory in the Russian Orthodox Church; J.Oeldemann

'This volume highlights religion at work through encounters of cultures and civilizations. It showcases religion's transnational nature and its incredible diversity observed in the new context of an integrating Europe. The shift from the conflict perspective to 'encounters of faiths' is refreshing and inspiring.' - Vjekoslav Perica, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Utah, USA