The Visible Religion: The Russian Orthodox Church and Her Relations with State and Society in Post-Soviet Canon Law (1992-2015)

ISBN-13: 9783631735121 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2017 / 362 str.

Makrides, Vasilios N.

Opis

The Russian Orthodox Church in her post-Soviet canon law suggests a comprehensive cultural program of modernity that combines transcendence and immanence, theological and social reasoning, an afterlife strategy and cooperation with secular actors, whereby eschatology and the human rights discourse become two sides of the same coin.

Spis treści

Russian Orthodox Church - Post-Soviet canon law - Relations with state and society - "Reloaded" symphony of powers - Multiple modernities and post-secularity - Theopolitics and geotheology - Russian Orthodox modernity - Visible religion - Post-religious

O autorze

Alexander Ponomariov researches religion (Orthodox Christianity) and politics in Russia and Eastern Europe. He studied Orthodox theology in Moscow and earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Passau in Germany. His academic interests also include translingual Bible criticism and Semitic languages.