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| EASTERN ORTHODOXY | ||||
| Embodies an aesthetic theology that stresses tradition,
ritual, and hierarchy. A resistance to modernization has meant that the
Greek or Russian Christian churches, unlike Roman Catholicism and
Protestantism, have had little significant impact on Western social
science. Differing in style, discipline, and doctrine from Catholicism,
the cultural influences of these churches are great. Orthodoxy's concern
with icons and symbols makes it a rich resource for reference in current
debates on culture and postmodernity. Pitirim Sorokin, the emigré Russian
sociologist, drew from an Orthodox background in his writings. Since 1989,
the Russian Orthodox Church has had to cope with a religious market of
sects and new religious movements where its resistance to modernization
has come into question. Orthodoxy has had an important monastic revival
since the late 1960s in Russian, Greek and Coptic traditions.
—Kieran Flanagan ReferencesC. Lane, Christian Religion in the Soviet Union (London: Allen & Unwin, 1978) D. Martindale, Personality and Milieu (Houston, Texas: Cap & Gown, 1982) P. A. Sorokin, The Long Journey (New Haven, Conn.: College and University Press, 1963). |
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