'A World to be Transfigured': Shaping a Cold War vision of Orthodoxy from the South

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This chapter explores a transformative moment in the religious Cold War that led to a new vision of Orthodox Christianity articulated in an educational project for the youth. Pointing to the interconnected histories of cold war politics and postcolonial nation-building it shows how a religious minority in South India managed to transcend the boundaries of the nation-state and establish an international Orthodox alliance that could help them handle tensions within the church, respond to secular challenges and become leaders in global ecumenism. Channelling these apologetic struggles into the educational field, the Indian Orthodox Church pioneered a Christian curriculum for the Oriental churches which provided an alternative for their own communities, transcending ideological differences and cold war divisions and reaffirming the role of religion in the secular world.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationIn Defending the Faith
Subtitle of host publicationGlobal Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century
EditorsTodd Weir, Hugh McLeod
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages231-248
ISBN (Electronic)9780191938177
ISBN (Print)9780197266915
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Cold war
  • apologetics
  • Oriental Orthodoxy
  • pedagogy
  • religion

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