This volume concentrates on the " conceptual boundary" through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The single articles research how this boundary has developed in different periods and epochs and in different places. They also 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.

THOMAS BREMER is Professor of Ecumenical Theology (Eastern Churches) and Peace Studies in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Münster, Germany. Born in 1957, he studied Theology and Slavonic languages and has published on churches in former Yugoslavia, Russian Orthodoxy, ecumenical theology.

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Introductory Remarks	p. 1
The conception of borderlines	p. 3
Church and state, church and nation	p. 4
Church and democracy	p. 7
Geography, Eschatology, and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century	p. 16
The missionary task	p. 17
The geography of nations	p. 21
The conversion of Gog and Magog	p. 26
The first conversion of the Rhos	p. 29
Ruthenian Lands and the Early Modern Multiple Borderlands in Europe: Ethno-confessional Aspect	p. 40
Frontier history and the Ruthenian lands	p. 41
Early modern Ruthenian identities in the light of A. J. Rieber's scheme	p. 44
Religious and ethnic, religious versus ethnic	p. 48
Antemurale Christianitatis: Poland or Ruthenia?	p. 51
Confessionalization in the Slavia Orthodoxa (Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia)? - Potential and Limits of a Western Historiographical Concept	p. 66
Situational Religiosity: Everyday Strategies of the Moscow Christ-Faith Believers and of the St Petersburg Mystics Attracted by This Faith in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century	p. 98
The spiritual brotherhood of Ekaterina Tatarinova	p. 100
Mar'ia Borisova's Christ-faith community	p. 102
Situational religiosity	p. 103
Domestic life of Mar'ia Borisova's associates	p. 106
Religious practice of Mar'ia Borisova's associates	p. 107
Religious practice of Tatarinova's adherents	p. 108
Conclusion	p. 111
The Chapel of the Polish Kings: History, Religion, and the Borders of an Imagined Nation	p. 121
Mieszko and Boleslaw in Life and death	p. 123
The eclipse of Poland and the rise of Polish nationalism	p. 125
Building the Chapel of the Polish kings	p. 128
Decoding the chapel	p. 133
Aftermath and conclusion	p. 140
Romanian Orthodox Theologians as Pioneers of the Ecumenical Dialogue Between East and West: The Relevance and Topicality of Their Position in Uniting Europe	p. 146
General considerations of the ecumenical activity of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the first half of the 20th century	p. 146
The position of metropolitan Nicolae Balan (1920-55) of Transylvania regarding the ecumenical movement	p. 152
The position of Professor I. G. Coman towards the ecumenical movement at the Orthodox Conference in Moscow (9-18 July 1948)	p. 155
The Romanian Orthodox Church's implication in the ecumenical movement after 1961	p. 160
The relevance and topicality of the mentioned theologian's ideas in uniting Europe	p. 161
Peace Through Reconciliation: Aktion Suhnezeichen and the Lutheran Church in the GDR	p. 166
Summer camps	p. 168
Annual assembly	p. 170
Regional groups	p. 172
Conclusions	p. 174
Religiosity in European Comparison - Theoretical and Empirical Ideas	p. 182
Introduction	p. 182
Theoretical structures or groups of countries in Europe	p. 184
Data, indicators, and measurement for religious vitality	p. 190
The situation of Religiosity in Western and Eastern Europe 2000	p. 193
Sources of Eastern European religiosity	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 208
Catholic Tradition and New Religious Movements: What Is New in the Present Religious Landscape in Croatia?	p. 215
General information about the religious situation in the Republic of Croatia	p. 215
New Religious movements, 'New Age' and familiar phenomena	p. 219
Croation youth in past and present: an overview	p. 222
Conclusion	p. 223
The Concept of Canonical Territory in the Russian Orthodox Church	p. 229
Historical and canonical background	p. 230
The meaning of the term 'canonical territory'	p. 232
Some remarks on the assessment of the concept of canonical territory	p. 233
Index	p. 237
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