Irina Papkov

The project examines the causes behind the rise of Orthodox fundamentalism in post-communist South-Eastern Europe. Specifically, it compares the spread of fundamentalism within Orthodoxy to the absence of an analogous phenomenon within the Catholic Church in the same geographical area; such a systematic comparison should lead to the identification of factors which were present in the Orthodox but not in the Catholic case, and can thus be hypothesized to have contributed to the recent growth of Orthodox fundamentalism in South-Eastern Europe.