Singing in a Strange Land - New book from Holy Cross Orthodox Press

From Holy Cross Orthodox Press this tile by Elia Boutoutsis examines the struggles around religion and culture in the west. These struggles have been particularly intense for immigrant and diaspora faith communities like the Orthodox communions as they seek to find an appropriate place and voice in the postmodern West. Like their exilic ancestors in faith, they ask at every turn, 'How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?' This book offers an in-depth reflection on such struggles and questions through the lenses of ancient theology, modern psychology, and postmodern, postcolonial theory. And its core contention is a provocative one -- that authentic faithfulness to Orthodox tradition itself demands openness and adaptation in every 'strange land.'

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