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Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Christianity: An Introduction

Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Christianity: An Introduction The center/periphery paradigm has long served as a framework for assessing political and economic power and structures, from ancient and modern states or empires to models of economic development or underdevelopment. Intellectual, cultural, and – as in this volume – religious trends also lend themselves to fruitful analysis of core and peripheral characteristics and processes. Moreover, with the rise of deconstructionist and postmodernist theory, scholars have been more closely attuned to the multiple perspectives that break down any monolithic concept of center or periphery, promoting increased sensitivity to the malleability and fluidity of these constructs. As recent decades have brought Eastern Christianity into focus as a subject of renewed study among Western historians, this topic also benefits from consideration of its multiple and changing “central” and “peripheral” aspects with an eye toward the fluid nature, indeed of the constant “decentering” and “recentering,” of concepts and structures through the time and spaces of history or culture. Certainly, given the dynamism of the current study of Eastern Christianity, we are in no position to declare as immutable any aspects that are “central” or “peripheral” to its belief system, practice, history, and development; instead, we have a responsibility to be flexible http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

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Brill
Copyright
© 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Articles
ISSN
0094-288X
eISSN
1876-3316
DOI
10.1163/18763316-04001001
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Abstract

The center/periphery paradigm has long served as a framework for assessing political and economic power and structures, from ancient and modern states or empires to models of economic development or underdevelopment. Intellectual, cultural, and – as in this volume – religious trends also lend themselves to fruitful analysis of core and peripheral characteristics and processes. Moreover, with the rise of deconstructionist and postmodernist theory, scholars have been more closely attuned to the multiple perspectives that break down any monolithic concept of center or periphery, promoting increased sensitivity to the malleability and fluidity of these constructs. As recent decades have brought Eastern Christianity into focus as a subject of renewed study among Western historians, this topic also benefits from consideration of its multiple and changing “central” and “peripheral” aspects with an eye toward the fluid nature, indeed of the constant “decentering” and “recentering,” of concepts and structures through the time and spaces of history or culture. Certainly, given the dynamism of the current study of Eastern Christianity, we are in no position to declare as immutable any aspects that are “central” or “peripheral” to its belief system, practice, history, and development; instead, we have a responsibility to be flexible

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Russian HistoryBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

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