Includes papers of the interdisciplinary conference "Orthodox Paradoxes: Heterogeneities and Complexities in Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy", held on 12-14 September 2011 by INaSEC (Institute for the Academic Study of Eastern Christianity at VU University (Amsterdam).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communicational aspects. Intellectual communication of Russian Orthodoxy from the enlightenment to modernity / Tatiana Artemyeva ; The polemic concerning Church Slavonic / Wil van den Bercken ; The Enthronement of Patriarch Kirill : a liturgical event / Per-Arne Bodin ; "Kirill's Doctrine" and the Potential Transformation of Russian Orthodox Christianity / Alexander Verkhovsky -- Contemporary Heterogeneities. Orthodox Fundamentalism: Intersection of Modernity, Postmodernity, and Tradition / Anastasia V. Mitrofanova ; Eschatological expectations in Post-Soviet Russia: Historical Context and Modes of Interpretation / Alexei Beglov ; Mediators Between Heaven and Earth: The Forms of Spiritual Guidance and Debate on Spiritual Elders in Present-Day Russian Orthodoxy / Irina Paert ; Why are Hegumen Paisii and St Maria of Paris not Included in the ROC Calendar of Saints? / Elina Kahla -- Aspects of Social Work. "Social Theology" and Social Work in the Romanian Orthodox Church: A Paradoxical Development? / Iuliana Conovici ; Participating in the Global Community: The "Syndesmos" experience of the Kazan Orthodox Youth / Ekaterina Khodzhaeva ; Orthodoxy and the Politics of Emotion in the Case of "Brother Ioann" Churikov and His Followers, 1910-1914 / Page Herrlinger -- Theological Aspects. Postmodern Orthodoxy? Text, Interpretation, and History in Orthodox Scholarship / Frank P. Bestebreurtje ; Debating the Theology of the Name in Post-Soviet Russia: Metropolitan Ilarion Alfeyev and Sergei Khoruzhii / Scott M. Kenworthy -- Tradition : Transformation or Invention? Rebuilding the Chain: Tradition, Continuity, and Processions of the Cross in Post-Soviet Russia / Stella Rock ; Paradoxes of Patriarchy: Orthodoxy and Gender in Post-Soviet Russia / Nadieszda Kizenko ; Contemporary Russian Church art? Between Tradition and Modernity / Lidia Chakovskaya -- ROC and Ecumenical Dialogue. Paradoxes and Contradictions in Russian Orthodox Ecumenism. An Analysis of Non-Official Publications in the 1990s / Wil van den Bercken ; A Dialogue of Paradoxes: Orthodox? Old Catholic Dialogue / Peter-Ben Smit ; 'The language of fullness and the language of emptiness'. Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and Buddhism? : a paradox / Ton Lathouwers.