This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures.

'This volume highlights religion at work through encounters of cultures and civilizations. It showcases religion's transnational nature and its incredible diversity observed in the new context of an integrating Europe. The shift from the conflict perspective to 'encounters of faiths' is refreshing and inspiring.' - Vjekoslav Perica, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Utah, USA

Autorentext
ROBERT E. ALVIS History Department, St Meinrad School of Theology, USA LILIYA BEREZHNAYA Historian, formerly Gerda Henkel Fellow, Münster, Germany ALFONS BRÜNING Institute for Eastern Churches Studies, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands LEONID S. CHEKIN Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia DAVID DOELLINGER Department of History, Western Oregon University, USA EKATERINA EMELIANTSEVA Department of Eastern European History, Zurich University, Switzerland JOHANNES OELDEMANN Johann-Adam-Moehler-Institute for Ecumenics, Paderborn, Germany GERT PICKEL Cultural Sociology, Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder, Germany MIHAI SASAUJAN Chair of Church History, Bucharest University, Romania ZRINKA STIMAC Graduate School, Jena University, Germany

Inhalt
Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Introductory Remarks; T.Bremer Geography, Eschatology, and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century; L.S.Chekin Ruthenian Lands and the Early Modern Multiple Borderlands in Europe: Ethnoconfessional Aspect; L.Berezhnaya Confessionalization in the Slavia Orthodoxa (Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia)?; A.Brüning Situational Religiosity; E.Emeliantseva The Chapel of the Polish Kings; R.E.Alvis Romanian Orthodox Theologians as Pioneers of the Ecumenical Dialogue between East and West; M.Sasaujan Peace through Reconciliation; D.Doellinger Religiosity in European Comparison: Theoretical and Empirical Ideas; G.Pickel Catholic Tradition and New Religious Movements; Z.Stimac The Concept of Canonical Territory in the Russian Orthodox Church; J.Oeldemann