The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics
Irina Papkova, a professor of international relations at Budapest's Central European University, has written a new book that analyzes post-Soviet church-state affairs in Russia as well as the broader political engagement of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The book pursues a number of objecti...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 147-149 |
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| Summary: | Irina Papkova, a professor of international relations at Budapest's Central European University, has written a new book that analyzes post-Soviet church-state affairs in Russia as well as the broader political engagement of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The book pursues a number of objectives, the most important of which are aimed at dispelling the popular notion prevalent in Western media and political analyses that the ROC is a unitary and all-powerful institution “capable of influencing political processes in the Russian Federation” (p. 70). Whether Papkova succeeds in dispelling this notion in the long term remains to be seen, but she has done an admirable job of marshalling all available evidence in making her case. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr142 |