nationalism

The Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian Church before the Revolution

The article deals with the ideological and political aspects of the relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The Russian imperial idea was strongly influenced by the idea of Orthodox oikumene, first shaped in Byzantium.

Constructing Ukrainian National Identity in the Subcarpathian Rus by the Greek Catholic Order of St. Basil (1919 – 1939)

For a long time historical Transcarpathia made part of the various countries. In a foreign cultural environment the local church developed a unique system of relations with the state, keeping intact the ritual-liturgical foundations, including Slavonic language. The article focuses on the reform of the Galician Basilians in Subcarpathian Rus, whose activity caused a collision of Ukrainian, Hungarian and Romanian nationalisms. It explores the particular ways of using the structures of the Basilian Order by the Galician monks for designing the Ukrainian identity in the region.

Religion and Nation in Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania: Three Eastern Orthodox Models

According to many analysts, there is a general affinity between Eastern Orthodoxy and nationalism, especially in Southeastern Europe. The present article aims to draw a more differentiated picture and shows that in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia religious nationalism developed with different intensity and along different paths. Among the three countries compared, Bulgaria has the weakest tradition of Orthodox sacralization of both nation and politics.