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Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World (Paperback)
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Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2016:02
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The place of religion in the Enlightenment has been keenly debated
for many years. Research has tended, however, to examine the
interplay of religion and knowledge in Western countries, often
ignoring the East. In Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox
World leading historians address this imbalance by exploring the
intellectual and cultural challenges and changes that took place in
Orthodox communities during the eighteenth century. The two main
centres of Orthodoxy, the Greek-speaking world and the Russian
Empire, are the focus of early chapters, with specialists analysing
the integration of modern cosmology into Greek education, and the
Greek alternative 'enlightenment', the spiritual Philokalia.
Russian experts also explore the battle between the spiritual and
the rational in the works of Voulgaris and Levshin. Smaller
communities of Eastern Europe were faced with their own particular
difficulties, analysed by contributors in the second part of the
book. Governed by modernising princes who embraced Enlightenment
ideals, Romanian society was fearful of the threat to its
traditional beliefs, whilst Bulgarians were grappling in different
ways with a new secular ideology. The particular case of the
politically-divided Serbian world highlights how Dositej
Obradovic's complex humanist views have been used for varying
ideological purposes ever since. The final chapter examines the
encroachment of the secular on the traditional in art, and the
author reveals how Western styles and models of representation were
infiltrating Orthodox art and artefacts. Through these innovative
case studies this book deepens our understanding of how Christian
and secular systems of knowledge interact in the Enlightenment, and
provides a rich insight into the challenges faced by leaders and
communities in eighteenth-century Orthodox Europe.
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