Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism
Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism surveys the ways in which the Russian Orthodox Church has negotiated its relationship with the secular state, with other religions, and with Western modernity from its beginnings until the present. It applies multiple theoretical perspectives and draws on different d...
| Published in: | Brill research perspectives in religion and politics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Brill research perspectives in religion and politics
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| Further subjects: | B
religious market
B Civil Religion B Secularization B Communism B Russian Orthodox Church B Culture Wars B desecularization B Soviet Union B Russia B Postsecular |
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| Summary: | Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism surveys the ways in which the Russian Orthodox Church has negotiated its relationship with the secular state, with other religions, and with Western modernity from its beginnings until the present. It applies multiple theoretical perspectives and draws on different disciplinary approaches to explain the varied and at times contradictory facets of Russian Orthodoxy as a state church or as a critic of the state, as a lived religion or as a civil religion controlled by the state, as a source of dissidence during Communism or as a reservoir of anti-Western, anti-modernist ideas that celebrate the uniqueness and superiority of the Russian nation. Kristina Stoeckl argues that, three decades after the fall of Communism, the period of post-Soviet transition is over for Russian Orthodoxy and that the Moscow Patriarchate has settled on its role as national church and provider of a new civil religion of traditional values. |
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| ISSN: | 2589-5850 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Brill research perspectives in religion and politics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25895850-12340002 |