Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe (Studies in Central and Eastern Europe)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230550766
Subjects: Christianity; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of religion; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Government - Comparative; International Relations - General; Political Science / International Relations
Description: This volume is about the "conceptual boundary" in Europe, a boundary determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. It researches how this boundary has developed over different periods and epochs and in different places. It also shows that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but has been subject to change and development as well as being a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures. There is no purely Western or purely Eastern Church; one has influenced the other.