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Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism
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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.
Kristina Stoeckl, Ph.D. (1977, European University Institute), is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. She has published on Russian Orthodoxy and on society, religion and modernity, including the monograph The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (Routledge, 2014).
Scholars and students interested in the Russian Orthodox Church and role of religion and secularism in contemporary Russian society and politics.