Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Monasticism in Eastern-Central Europe ...........17 Croatian Monasticism and Glagolitic Tradition : Glagolitic Letters at home and Abroad ...........42 Monasticism in Slovakia and Slovak National Development ............62 Catholic Monasticism, Orders, and Societies in Hungary : Centuries of Expansion, Disaster, and Revival ..........86 Religion and Identity in Montenegro ........110 Mount Athos: Relations between the Holy Mountain and Eastern Europe ....130 Roman Catholic Monasticism in Poland : A brief Overview of Selected Issues ...............152 Orthodox monasticism and the Development of the modern Romania state: From Dora D`Istria`s Criticism to Cyclical reevaluation of Monastic Spirituality in Contemporary Romania ...............173 Monasticism in Serbia in the modern Period: Development, Influence, importance .......190 The Church and Religious orders in Slovenia in the twentieth Century ..............218 Between east and west : Albania`s Monastic Mosaic ............241 2. Monasticism in Russia and the Former Soviet Republics ........263 Monasticism in Modern Russia ............265 Monasticism in Russia`s far north in the Pre-Petine era: Social, Cultural, and Economic Interaction ......285 Archimandrites and antiquities: the Creation of Orthodox-Based Russian National Identity at Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery in the Nineteenth Century ..........308 Monasticism and the Construction of the Armenian Intellectual Tradition ........330 Monks and onasticism in Georgia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ............351 Greco-Catholic Monasticism in Ukraine: Between mission and Contemplation .......372