[PDF] Orthodox Christians In America eBook

Author : John H. Erickson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199951322

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Although there are over 200 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, 4 million of whom live in the United States, their history, beliefs, and practices are unfamiliar to most Americans. This book outlines the evolution of Orthodox Christian dogma, which emerged for the first time in 33 A.D., before shifting its focus to American Orthodoxy--a tradition that traces its origins back to the first Greek and Russian immigrants in the 1700s. The narrative follows the momentous events and notable individuals in the history of the Orthodox dioceses in the U.S., including Archbishop Iakovos' march for civil rights alongside Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Orthodox missionaries' active opposition to the mistreatment of native Inuit in Alaska, the quest for Orthodox unity in America, the massive influx of converts since the 1960s, and the often strained relationship between American Orthodox groups and the mother churches on the other side of the Atlantic. Erickson explains the huge impact Orthodox Christianity has had on the history of immigration, and how the religion has changed as a result of the American experience. Lively, engaging, and thoroughly researched, the book unveils an insightful portrait of an ancient faith in a new world.

Author : Oliver Herbel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199324956

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This book examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century.

Author : Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501749447

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In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.

Author : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0268101299

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Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.

Author : Vigen Guroian
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493415646

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This is a book about the struggle of Orthodox Christianity to establish a clear identity and mission within modernity--Western modernity in particular. As such, it offers penetrating insight into the heart and soul of Orthodoxy. Yet it also lends unusual, unexpected insight into the struggle of all the churches to engage modernity with conviction and integrity. Written by one of the leading voices of contemporary Orthodox theology, The Orthodox Reality is a treasury of the Orthodox response to the challenges of Western culture in order to answer secularism, act ecumenically, and articulate an ethics of the family that is both faithful to tradition and relevant to our day. The author honestly addresses Orthodoxy's strengths and shortcomings as he introduces readers to Orthodoxy as a living presence in the modern world.

Author : Ezra Ham
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781973542247

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Millions of immigrants arrived in the United States during the Great Migration of 1860-1924. Increasingly Old Stock Americans grew fearful of these new people with their strange ways and strange religions. The Immigrants' Tale is a cultural history of the coming of Eastern Orthodox Arab Christians to the United States. The Tale is told by the members of St. Elijah Orthodox Christian Church in Oklahoma City, OK. Change the names, change the city, change the religion and it's the universal story experienced by all immigrants The Immigrants' Tale is larger than any one community, any one city, any one ethnicity and any one religion. It is the Tale of all immigrants. Everyone living in the United States is an immigrant or a descendent of immigrants. The Immigrants' Tale is therefore our story; even if our ancestors have lived here so long we no longer remember or care where they came from.

Author : A. G. Roeber
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1531505066

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A distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralistic American society. From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Orthodox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person. In a pluralistic society and culture, Orthodox Christians, both converts and those with family roots in Orthodox countries, share with non-Orthodox fellow citizens the challenge of reconciling conflicting rights claims. Those claims do pit “religious liberty” rights claims against perceived dangers from outside the Orthodox Church. But internal disagreements about the rights of clergy and people within the Church accompany the Orthodox Christian engagement with debates over gender, sex, and marriage as well as expanding political, legal, and human rights claims. Despite their small numbers, North American Orthodox remain highly visible and their struggles influential among the more than 280 million Orthodox worldwide. Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America offers an historical analysis of this unfolding story.

Author : Andrew Stephen Damick
Publisher :
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 9781944967178

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This new edition of the bestselling Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy is fully revised and significantly expanded. Major new features include a full chapter on Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movements, an expanded epilogue, and a new appendix ("How and Why I Became an Orthodox Christian"). More detail and more religions and movements have been included, and the book is now addressed broadly to both Orthodox and non-Orthodox, making it even more sharable than before.