Sebastian Rimestad is a senior researcher at the Department of Religious Studies specialising in Christianity. He is the author of The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1945) (2012), and has published numerous articles on various topics connected with Orthodox Christianity and religion in modernising societies.

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• Preface; Notes on Terminology; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Orthodox Faithful as ‘Diaspora’? The Pastoral Discourse; 3 The Territoriality of Orthodox Church Structures: The Ecclesiological Discourse; 4 Orthodox Jurisdictions as Organisations: The Institutional Discourse; 5 The Christian Church as One: The Ecumenical Discourse; 6 Conclusion

Sebastian Rimestad is a senior researcher at the Department of Religious Studies specialising in Christianity. He is the author of The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1945) (2012), and has published numerous articles on various topics connected with Orthodox Christianity and religion in modernising societies.

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• Preface; Notes on Terminology; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Orthodox Faithful as ‘Diaspora’? The Pastoral Discourse; 3 The Territoriality of Orthodox Church Structures: The Ecclesiological Discourse; 4 Orthodox Jurisdictions as Organisations: The Institutional Discourse; 5 The Christian Church as One: The Ecumenical Discourse; 6 Conclusion