Notes on contributers; Editor's introduction / Augustine Casiday; Divisions of Middle Eastern Christianity / Alexander Treiger; Part I : Orthodox Christianity around the world. [ch.1] The Greek tradition / Andrew Louth; [ch.2] The Russian tradition / Vera Shevzov; [ch.3] The Armenian tradition / Vrej Nersessian; [ch.4] The Georgian tradition / Tamara Grdzelidze; [ch.5] The Syriac tradition / Robert A. Kitchen; [ch.6] The Assyrian Church of the East / Robert A. Kitchen; [ch.7] The Arabic tradition / Alexander Treiger; [ch.8] The Coptic tradition / Maged S.A. Mikhail; [ch.9] The Ethiopian tradition / Osvaldo Raineri; [ch.10] The Serbian tradition / Vladimir Cvetković; [ch.11] The Romanian tradition / Dan Ioan Mureşan; [ch.12] Orthodoxy in Paris : the reception of Russian Orthodox thinkers (1925-40) / Antoine Arjakovsky; [ch.13] Orthodoxy in North America / Dellas Oliver Herbel; [ch.14] Orthodoxy in Australia : current and future perspectives / Trevor Batrouney -- Part II : Important figures in Orthodox Christianity. [ch.15] Mary the Theotokos ("Birth-giver of God") / Mary B. Cunningham; [ch.16] Ephrem the Syrian / Robert A. Kitchen; [ch.17] Macarius (Macarius-Simeon, Pseudo-Macarius) / Marcus Plested; [ch.18] John Chrysostom / Wendy Mayer; [ch.19] Cyril of Alexandria / Norman Russell; [ch.20] Dionysius the Areopagite / Alan Brown; [ch.21] Babai the Great / Robert A. Kitchen; [ch.22] St Maximus the Confessor / Melchisedec Törönen; [ch.23] Sinai and John Climacus / Jonathan L. Zecher; [ch.24] Cyril and Methodius / T. Allan Smith; [ch.25] Photius of Constantinople / Adrian Agachi; [ch.26] Barhebraeus / Hidemi Takahashi; [ch.27] Täklä Haymanot / Getatchew Haile; [ch.28] The Hesychasts : "political Photianism" and the public sphere in the fourteenth century / Dan Ioan Mureșan; [ch.29] Nil Sorskii / T. Allan Smith; [ch.30] Neagoe Basarab / Augustine Casiday; [ch.31] Nikodemos the Haghiorite / Norman Russell; [ch.32] Contemporary Athonite fathers / Graham Speake; [ch.33] Elders of Optina Pustyn'; / T. Allan Smith; [ch.34] Saint Raphael Hawaweeny, bishop of Brooklyn : "The Good Shepherd of the Lost Sheep in America" / The Right Reverend Basil Essey; [ch.35] Sergii Bulgakov / Paul Gavrilyuk; [ch.36] Dumitru Stăniloae / Stefan Stroia; [ch.37] Matta al-Miskîn / Maged S.A. Mikhail -- Part III : Major themes in Orthodox Christianity. [ch.38] Ecclesiology and ecumenism / Peter C. Bouteneff; [ch.39] Orthodox canon law : the Byzantine experience / David Wagschal; [ch.40] The doctrine of the trinity : its history and meaning / Aristotle Papanikolaou; [ch.41] Orthodoxy and culture / John A. McGuckin; [ch.42] Ethics / Perry T. Hamalis; [ch.43] Women in orthodoxy / Vassa Kontouma; [ch.44] Hagiography and devotion to the saints / James Skedros; [ch.45] The philokalia / Vassa Kontouma; [ch.46] From Jewish apocalypticism to Orthodox mysticism / Bogdan G. Bucur; [ch.47] Philosophy and orthodoxy in Byzantium / Torstein Theodor Tollefsen; [ch.48] Russian philosophy and orthodoxy / Christian Gottlieb; [ch.49] Modern Greek literature and orthodoxy / David Ricks; [ch.50] Russian literature and orthodoxy : outline of main trends to 1917 / Alexis Klimoff; [ch.51] Music in the Orthodox church / Ivan Moody; [ch.52] Orthodox Christianity and mental health / John T. Chirban; [ch.53] Orthodox Christianity and world religions / Gavin Flood; Index.