Russian orthodoxy and secularism / / Kristina Stoeckl.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• VerfasserIn: Stoeckl, Kristina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives Religion and politics.; Religion and politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (81 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Definitions -- 1.2 Theoretical Perspectives: Religious Economy, Desecularization, Postsecularity -- 1.3 Overview -- 2 Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism Up to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 2.1 The Limits and Indirect Effects of Symphonia -- 2.2 Entanglements of Russian and European Trajectories of Reform and Secularization -- 3 Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism during the Communist Period -- 3.1 The Russian Orthodox Church's Collaboration with the Soviet State -- 3.2 Lived Religion and Religious Dissent in the Soviet Union -- 3.3 Russian Orthodoxy in the Western Emigration -- 4 Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism after Communism -- 4.1 Desecularization from Above -- 4.2 Liberals, Fundamentalists and Traditionalists-the Multivocality of the Russian Orthodox Church -- 5 Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism in the Twenty-First Century -- 5.1 "Traditional Values" as Civil Religion -- 5.2 The Russian Orthodox Church as a National Church -- 5.3 Russian Orthodoxy and the Global Culture Wars -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography.