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Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls (Religion and Human Rights) [Paperback]

John, Jr. Witte (Editor), Michael Bourdeaux (Editor)


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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Orbis Books (March 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1570752621
  • ISBN-13: 978-1570752629
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,076,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald
Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and
Religion Center at Emory University. A specialist in legal history, marriage law, and religious liberty, he has published 180 articles, 13 journal symposia, and 24 books.

Professor Witte's writings have appeared in ten languages, and he has lectured
and convened conferences through North America, Western and Eastern
Europe, Japan, Israel, and South Africa. With major funding from the Pew, Ford,Lilly, Luce, and McDonald foundations, he has directed 12 major international projects on democracy, human rights, and religious liberty, and on marriage, family, and children. These projects have collectively yielded more than 160 new volumes and 250 public forums around the world. He edits two major book series, "Studies in Law and Religion," and "Religion, Marriage and Family." He has been selected ten times by the Emory law students as the Most Outstanding Professor and has won dozens of other awards and prizes for his teaching and research.

Professor Witte is married to Eliza Ellison. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.

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The Russian Orthodox Church which in 1988 emerged battered but triumphant into the environment of contemporary religious liberty was a strange creature. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
centralized religious organization, foreign religious organizations, totalitarian sects, foreign religious groups, foreign sects, disseminate religious, regional laws, atheist propaganda, religious human rights, postcommunist period, antireligious campaign, interreligious relations, juridical personality, sending agencies, disfavored groups, limitations clause, postcommunist countries, foreign missionaries
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet Union, Russian Constitution, Mark Elliott, New York, European Court, Anita Deyneka, Russian Catholicism, Old Believers, Communist Party, Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, United States, Emory International Law Review, Orthodox Christians, Sergei Filatov, Udmurt Republic, Roman Catholic, Russian Ministries Files, Jeremy Gunn, Keston News Service, Patriarch Aleksii, East European, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Rite, Russian Empire
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