Burden or blessing?
Subtitle: Russian Orthodoxy and the construction of civil society and democracy
By: edited by Christopher Marsh
Contributors: Boston University. Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Publisher: Boston University, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Civil society; Civil rights; Church and state; Politics and government; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The ambivalent role of Orthodoxy in the construction of civil society and democracy in Russia / Christopher Marsh; title: Civil society, Russian Orthodoxy, and democracy: theoretical framework /conceptual clarification / Zoe Knox; title: Failing freedom: parties, elites and the uncertainty of religious life in Russia / Beth M. Admiraal; title: Unity in diversity: civil society, democracy, and orthodoxy in contemporary Russia / Nikolas K. Gvosdev; title: Orthodoxy and the societal ideal / Vsevolod Chaplin; title: The resurgence of Russian Orthodoxy and its implications for Russian democracy / Irina A. Papkov; title: Centralization of power, fragmentation of belief: statist relativism in Post-Soviet Russia / Lawrence A. Uzzell; title: Russian Orthodoxy, the Russian Ministry of Education, and post-communist moral education / Perry L. Glanzer and Gregory Kljutcharev; title: The church and the struggle for renewal: the experience of three Moscow parishes / Wallace Daniel; title: The Church of the Icon of the Kazan' Mother of God on Red Square: a symbol of unity for Russian society / Brigit Farley and Ann Kleimola; title: Orthodox Yarmarki as a form of civic engagement / Inna Naletova; title: The Orthodox Church seeks to place itself in Russian society / Philip Walters; title: Religiosity, politics, and the formation of civil society in multinational Russia / James Warhola.