Volunteering, social ministry and ethical-behavioural attitudes in post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Christianity

This article explores the principles of volunteer mobilisation in social ministry and diaconal practices in contemporary Russian Orthodoxy. I focus on the main types of faith-based volunteer associations, assistance organisations and official Orthodox centres of social ministry that recruit voluntee...

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Main Author: Knorre, Boris K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2018]
In: Religion, state & society
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-63
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Russia / Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / Social engagement / Honorary office / History 1991-2017
Further subjects:B Volunteering
B humanitarian-anthropological theology
B Russian Orthodoxy
B social ministry
B Orthodox Theology
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