Pew Study on Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century

An Orthodox church in the Podil’ district of Kyiv, Ukraine.

The Pew Forum has released a new study on Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century. The study features insights on the practices and views of Orthodox people in the countries of the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. Readers interested in Ethiopian Orthodoxy will have plenty to discuss here. The researchers covered both Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy; the study says little about the Syrian and Coptic Churches, and Orthodoxy in India.

Nicholas Denysenko

Nicholas Denysenko serves as Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University. He previously taught at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (2010-2017). Denysenko is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (B.S. in Business, 1994), St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2000), and The Catholic University of America (Ph.D., 2008). His most recent books are The Church's Unholy War: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023), and This is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023). He is a priest of the Orthodox Church in America.

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    Fritz Bauerschmidt

    There’s a lot of interesting data in this study. It also makes me realize how little I know about the Ethiopian Orthodox (i.e. that they keep Jewish dietary laws and circumcise on the eighth day), and makes me want to learn nore.

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