Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Contemporary Oriental Orthodox Textual Traditions in Europe

This final contribution analyses the results of the project Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Christians in Europe, 1970-2020, and argues that it is indeed possible to write a common history of Oriental communities in Europe through their publication practices. Similar Christian theologies, largely parallel migration histories and comparable publication strategies allow for various avenues of comparison. Despite significant differences in starting points in the homelands, similar responses to similar challenges come to the fore. Similarities also arise from the common ground between those churches that is taking on new hues, often in response to local or national politics of recognition. Finally, there are indications that churches and authors are inspired by what happens in other churches, thus pointing to the emergence of a common publication practice, a practice, however, that despite a recognizable Oriental Orthodox look and feel, is thoroughly entangled with Christian publication practices more widely, be the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic or varieties of Protestantism and Evangelicalism.