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This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism’s continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries. Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian historiography and looks at the role of monasticism as a cultural and national identity forming determinant in the region.

This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism’s continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries. Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian historiography and looks at the role of monasticism as a cultural and national identity forming determinant in the region.

This volume was conceived with the double aim of providing a background and a further context for the new Dumbarton Oaks English translation of the Life of St Neilos from Rossano, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome in 1004. Reflecting this double aim, the volume is divided into two parts. Part I, entitled “Italo-Greek Monasticism,” builds the background to the Life of Neilos by taking several multi-disciplinary approaches to the geographical area, history and literature of the region denoted as Southern Italy. Part II, entitled “The Life of St Neilos,” offers close analyses of the text of Neilos’s hagiography from socio-historical, textual, and contextual perspectives. Together, the two parts provide a solid introduction and offer in-depth studies with original outcomes and wide-ranging bibliographies. Using monasticism as a connecting thread between the various zones and St Neilos as the figure who walked over mountains and across many cultural divides, the essays in this volume span all regions and localities and try to trace thematic arcs between individual testimonies. They highlight the multicultural context in which Southern Italian Christians lived and their way of negotiating differences with Arab and Jewish neighbors through a variety of sources, and especially in saints’ lives.

Written in the Jubilee Year 2025, which marks 115 years since Mother Teresa's birth, 75 years since the founding of the Missionaries of Charity, and a decade since the recognition of her second miracle, this book identifies five "revolutions" that define her legacy: prayer, poverty, service, suffering, and conscience.Drawing on the first Constitutions of the Missionaries of Charity and newly opened archives from Albania's Sigurimi files, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Directorate of Archives to Propaganda Fide in Rome, and diocesan collections from Reggio Calabria to Washington, D.C., Dr. Ines Angeli Murzaku uncovers a long-hidden story of sanctity, resistance, and renewal. The book shows how Catholic tradition becomes an engine of transformation when lived with radical fidelity. The final revolution, conscience, moves the story from private holiness to public change, radiating from Skopje and Calcutta to Tirana and Rome. Combining archival discovery, theological insight, and historical drama, this work offers a fresh and theologically rich reading of Mother Teresa's life.Mother Teresa's Revolutionary Theology is written for scholars and general readers interested in Christian theology, ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, modern sanctity, and Eastern European religious history. It serves those exploring how theological principles translate into lived practice across cultural and religious boundaries.