Product Description
by Marko Vekovic (Author)
For a long time, Orthodox Christianity was regarded as a religious tradition that was incompatible with democracy. This book challenges this incompatibility thesis, offering an innovative and fresh theoretical framework for dealing with the issue of Orthodoxy and democracy.
This book focuses on the political behaviour of Orthodox Christian Churches in the democratization processes from a comparative perspective, and shows that different Orthodox Churches acted differently in the democratization processes in Greece, Serbia and Russia. The fundamental question that arises is - why? By focusing on institutions, rather than on political theology, this book answers this question from a comparative perspective. By studying the historical, cultural, and political roles of the Orthodox Christian Church in these three countries, the author examines whether it is logical to presume that the Church played a significant role in the democratization process.
This book will be of great interest to academics and students globally who teach, study, and research in the emerging field of religion and democracy.
Author Biography
Marko Vekovic is Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Temple University (2014), Columbia University (2016), and as a post-doc scholar at University of Erfurt (2019). His work has been published in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Church and State, and Democratization.
