Monasticism in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics: An Introduction PART I: Monasticism in Eastern - Central Europe 1. Monasticism in Bulgaria 2. Croatian Monasticism and Glagolitic Tradition: Glagolitic Letters at Home and Abroad 3. Monasticism in Slovakia and Slovak National Development 4. Catholic Monasticism, Orders, and Societies in Hungary: Ten Centuries of Expansion, Disaster, and Revival 5. Religion and Identity in Montenegro 6. Relations between the Holy Mountain and Eastern Europe c.1850-2000 7. Roman Catholic Monasticism in Poland 8. Orthodox Monasticism and the Development of the Modern Romanian State from Dora d’Istria’s Criticism to Cyclical Reevaluation of Monastic Spirituality in Contemporary Romania 9. Monasticism in Serbia in the Modern Period: Development, Influence, Importance 10. The Church and Religious Orders in Slovenia in the Twentieth Century 11. Between East and West: Albania's Monastic Mosaic PART II: Monasticism in Russia and Former Soviet Republics 12. Monasticism in Modern Russia 13. Monasticism in Russia's Far North in the Pre-Petrine Era: Social, Cultural, and Economic Interaction 14. Abbots and Artifacts: The Construction of Orthodox-Based Russian National Identity at Resurrection "New Jerusalem" Monastery in the Nineteenth Century 15. Monasticism and the Construction of the Armenian Intellectual Tradition 16. Monks and Monasticism in Georgia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 17. Greco-Catholic Monasticism in Ukraine: Between Mission and Contemplation

"Professor Murzaku fills a significant void in her recent marvelous collection of essays on the role of monasticism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states...Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics is a must have for scholars in the area...I know of no other work available in English that details monasticism in ECE and FSR in an inter-disciplinary forum with attention to both Orthodox and Catholic expressions of monastic life... All theological and university libraries ought to have a copy for reference, in addition to those who research and teach in the areas of Eastern Christianity, ecumenism, spirituality and ecclesiology...I highly recommend this text." Robert P. Marko, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI - Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe Volume 36 Issue 5 2016