Solidarity and Separation: Religious Spirit and the Euromaidan
By Irina Papkova. During protests in Ukraine, a show of solidarity belied the divided nature of the country’s confessional landscape. Continue Reading →
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From Antelias to Bzoummar
Irina Papkova takes us on a tour of the religious centers that lie at the heart of Lebanon’s Armenian Christian communities. Continue Reading →
Believing in Russia
Irina Papkova reviews Geraldine Fagan’s “Believing in Russia – Religious Policy After Communism” Continue Reading →
Secular Lebanon
From Beirut, Irina Papkova reports on an anti-sectarian movement for a more secular Lebanon, and a marriage that’s making Lebanese history. Continue Reading →
Relationship Drama: Russia’s Church-State Affairs
The Russian Orthodox Church is a privileged institution very much at the forefront of Russian life, with a well-developed infrastructure and considerable wealth, so why do it’s leaders believe that Orthodoxy is under attack? Irina Papkova looks back over events in 2012 to explain why. Continue Reading →
Relationship Drama: Russia's Church-State Affairs
The Russian Orthodox Church is a privileged institution very much at the forefront of Russian life, with a well-developed infrastructure and considerable wealth, so why do it’s leaders believe that Orthodoxy is under attack? Irina Papkova looks back over events in 2012 to explain why. Continue Reading →
Syria: Stronghold of Secularism? Part Two.
In the second of two posts, Irina Papkova, explores Bashar al-Assads assertion that Syria is the “last stronghold of secularism in the Middle East.” Continue Reading →
Syria: Stronghold of Secularism?
Secularism has been a central part of dominant Syrian ideology since at least the 1960s, writes Irina Papkova, but is Assad’s Syria truly the last secular state in the region? Continue Reading →
Lebanon: War, Peace and Pluralism, Part 2
From Beirut, Irina Papkova describes in the second of two posts how former political opponents are maintaining Lebanon’s fragile peace through a pluralistic, democratic system. Continue Reading →
Lebanon: War, Peace and Pluralism
“The relationship between Lebanon and Syria is intricate and complicated, and the chaos in Syria presents serious challenges for its tiny neighbor to the west,” writes Irina Papkova in the first of two posts from Beirut in the aftermath of the October 19 bomb blast. Continue Reading →