Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Edited by: Victoria Hudson and Lucian N. Leustean

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553938

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This book examines the social and political mobilisation of religious communities towards forced displacement in relation to tolerance and transitory environments. How do religious actors and state bodies engage with refugees and migrants? What are the mechanisms of religious support towards forcibly displaced communities? Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia argues that when states do not act as providers of human security, religious communities, as representatives of civil society and often closer to the grass roots level, can be well placed to serve populations in need. The book brings together scholars from across the region and provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which religious communities tackle humanitarian crises in contemporary Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Author / Editor information

Hudson Victoria :

Victoria Hudson is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She completed her PhD at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, submitting a thesis on contemporary Russian soft power in Ukraine, with a particular emphasis on the contemporary role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russian foreign policy.Leustean Lucian N. :

Lucian N. Leustean is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is the Founding Editor of the Routledge Book Series on Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
1 Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia An Introduction Victoria Hudson and Lucian N. Leustean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Humanitarian Action, Forced Displacement and Religion Contemporary Research Perspectives Ansgar Jödicke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Section I Eastern Europe
3 Religion and Forced Displacement in Modern Bulgaria Daniela Kalkandjieva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 State, Religion and Refugees in Serbia Responses of Faith-Based Organisations, 1991-1996 Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović and Marko Veković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5 Asylum and Migration System Reform A New Role for the Orthodox Church of Greece? Georgios E. Trantas and Eleni D. Tseligka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6 Responding to Mass Emigration amidst Competing Narratives of Identity The Case of the Republic of Moldova Andrei Avram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
7 The Roman Catholic Church and Forced Displacement in Poland Maria Marczewska-Rytko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Section II Russia and Ukraine
8 ‘My Strength Is Made Perfect in Weakness’ Russian Orthodoxy and Forced Displacement Roman Lunkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
9 Forced Displacement, Religious Freedom and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Dmytro Vovk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Section III The Caucasus
10 ‘Forgotten by Many and Remembered by Few’ Religious Responses to Forced Migration in Georgia Tornike Metreveli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
11 Welcoming Refugees The Armenian Apostolic Church and Forced Displacement Jasmine Dum-Tragut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Section IV Central Asia
12 The Response of the Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan to the Emigration of Ethnic Russians from Independent Kazakhstan Victoria Hudson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
13 Сommunity Intolerance, State Repression and Forced Displacement in the Kyrgyz Republic Indira Aslanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
14 Migration within and from Uzbekistan The Role of Religion Rano Turaeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 414
Keywords: Religion; forced displacement; humanitarian action; Christianity; Islam

eBook

Published: May 3, 2022
ISBN: 9789048553938