Orthodox Christianity and the Covid-19 Pandemic

This book probes into the dynamics between Orthodox Christianity and the COVID-19 pandemic, unraveling a profound transformation at institutional and grassroots levels.

List of contents

Introduction, Tornike Metreveli
1. Church fragmentation and the pandemic: Analysis of four eastern Christian groups in UkraineTetiana Kalenychenko, Cyril Hovorun, Tymofii Brik
2. Orthodox Churches and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Romania and Bulgaria, Lucian N. Leustean
3. Conspiracies, anxieties, and ritual arrhythmia: Exploring Orthodox discourses and practices in Greece and Cyprus during the coronavirus pandemic,
4. As if the State Mattered: Georgian Orthodox Church under COVID Crisis, Tornike Metreveli
, Stefan Radojkovi¿
6. Immunity to COVID-19? The Russian Orthodox Church under global crisis, Maria Toropova
, Tymofii Brik, Tornike Metreveli
8. "Locked doors slam against the very essence of the Church" Finnish and Swedish Orthodox Priests' Pastoral Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Johan Bastubacka

About the author

Tornike Metreveli is an Associate Senior Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden

Product details

• Authors: Tornike (Tornike Metreveli Is a Researc Metreveli
• Assisted by: Tornike Metreveli (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032445601
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244560-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Sociology, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Religion: general, Christianity, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Regional Studies, Public health & preventive medicine, Regional / International studies, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Public health and preventive medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General