Fault Lines in the Orthodox World

Sebastian Rimestad is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig, Germany. His research focuses on religion in modern conditions, religious conversion, and Orthodox Christianity.

Emil Hilton Saggau is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on Orthodox theology and history in Southeastern Europe. In 2024, he was appointed to the office of General Secretary of the Danish National Council of Churches.

1. Sebastian Rimestad and Emil Hilton Saggau.- Introduction. Part I. Ecumenical approaches.- 2. Dimitrios Keramidas - Christian Unity and current Orthodox Ecclesial Agendas.- 3. Regina Elsner - War and the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue: The ambiguities of Religious Diplomacy.- 4. Katharina Kunter - Returning Geopolitics as an Ecumenical Challenge. The War in Ukraine and the End of Traditional Church Diplomacy.- Part II. The Ukrainian Issue.- 5. Rob Collins - The Russian Church in the Conflict of  Historiographies.- 6. Volodymyr Bureha - The Ukrainian Orthodox Church facing the challenge of war: the relationship with The Moscow Patriarchate and The Problem of a New Canonical Status.- 7. Dmytro Vovk - A victim, A Weapon: Religious-Freedom Narratives and The Russia-Ukraine War.- 8. Andrew Fert - Exploring Survival Strategies of the Parishes Belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.- 9. Sanami Takehashi - "We are one in Christ"? - Russian and Ukrainian Parishes in Germany.- 10. Pål Kolstø - Russian Orthodox Attitudes Towards Russia's Military Attack on Ukraine: Support, Silence and Opposition. Part III. The Other Churches.- 11. Stefan Rohdewald - Orthodox Exceptionalisms as Geopolitics: Russian and Serbian Orthodox Worlds.- 12. Emil Hilton Saggau - Checkmate - Orthodox Diplomacy in Montenegro and Macedonia in the Shades of the Ukrainian War.- 13. Ionut Biliuta - A Schism in the Making? Jurisdictional Conflict, Mutual Suspicions, and "Diplomatic" Negotiations between Romanian and Russian Orthodoxy in Post-Communist Years.- 14. Heta Hurskainen - The Orthodox Church of Finland's theological Arguments Concerning the Russian War in Ukraine. 15. Georgios Vlantis - The Academy of Volos as an Actor in World Orthodoxy. 16. Rob Saler - Fault lines in US American diaspora Orthodoxy.