RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This study aims to examine the fundamental characteristics of the Molokans as a religious group and how these characteristics are reflected in their social moral understanding from a sociological perspective. Emerging in 18th-century Russia, the Molokans stand out as one of the Spiritual Christian movements that developed in opposition to the institutional structure of Orthodox Christianity. The study addresses the …

Reference · Wikidata

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Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and certain forms of Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church is organised into autocephalous churches independent from each other. There are 17 mainstream autocephalous churches i…

Book · DOAB

The articles in this collection go well beyond introductions to look deeply at key dimensions of faith, theology, philosophy, liturgy, scripture, spiritual life and thinking on ecology and sexuality that together give a highly textured picture of the Orthodox Churches in the 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe emerge from persecution to rebuild the infrastruc…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

On verso of image: August 1919, Kodiak, Alaska, Orthodox Church Filed in Alaska--Islands--Kodiak In 1784 Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov founded a Russian settlement on Kodiak Island at Three Saints Bay, near the present-day village of Old Harbor. As a means of restricting the British fur trade and to continue in the sea otter hunting industry. In 1793, the Russians decided to move the capital of their colony from Three…