1st Edition
The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church Politics, Culture and Greater Russia
1. Introduction 2. The Bases of the Social Conception and Political Culture: Theory and Practice 3. The ROC’s Approach to Other Religious Associations: From Tradition and National Identity to 'Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture' 4. The Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Army: Sharing a Nationalist Vision 5. Political and Religious Challenges to the Moscow Patriarchate in Estonia 6. The Moscow Patriarchate’s Defence of its Canonical Territory in Ukraine 7. Church - State Relations in Belarus 8. Conclusion
Biography
Katja Richters gained her PhD from the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK. She currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
'This book takes a new direction in the study of the Orthodox Church and the Russian state which consists, from an empirical perspective, of a focus on multivocality, fragmentation and issue-politics inside the Church, and from a theoretical perspective, of an emphasis on contingency rather than path-dependency in the assessment of church-state relations. It looks at the Russian Orthodox Church as one actor among others in Russian politics and civil society, and interprets it as a public religion that is struggling internally towards a proper definition of its vocation and agenda, and externally for a place in Russian society and the world.' – Kristina Stoeckl, Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria
