Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Being as Tradition 1
4. Secularization
5. Secularism: The Golden Lie 21
6. Collectivistic Christianities and Pluralism: An Inquiry into Agency and Responsibility 36
7. What Difference Do Women Make? Retelling the Story of Catholic Responses to Secularism 60
8. The Secular Pilgrimage of Orthodoxy in America 80
9. Saeculum– Ecclesia– Caliphate: An Eternal Golden Braid 94
10. A Secularism of the Royal Doors: Toward an Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology of Secularism 108
11. Fundamentalism
12. Fundamentalism: Not Just a Cautionary Tale 133
13. Resolving the Tension between Tradition and Restorationism in American Orthodoxy 152
14. Fundamentalists, Rigorists, and Traditionalists: An Unorthodox Trinity 165
15. “Orthodoxy or Death”: Religious Fundamentalism during the Twentieth and Twenty- first Centuries 180
16. Confession and the Sacrament of Penance after Communism 204
17. Conscience and Catholic Identity 223
18. Fundamentalism as a Preconscious Response to a Perceived Threat 241
19. Acknowledgments 261
20. Contributors 263
21. Index 265