The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights
Title | The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Stoeckl |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 169 |
Release | 2014-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317817907 |
This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church's views on human rights. It analyzes the detail of the document, and assesses the practical and political impact inside the Church, at the national level and in the international arena. Overall, it shows how the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church has shifted from outright hostility towards individual human rights to the advocacy of "traditional values."
The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights
Title | The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Stoeckl |
Publisher | Routledge Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2016-06-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138205963 |
This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church's views on human rights. It analyzes the detail of the document, and assesses the practical and political impact inside the Church, at the national level and in the international arena. Overall, it shows how the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church has shifted from outright hostility towards individual human rights to the advocacy of "traditional values."
The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights
Title | The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Stoeckl |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 171 |
Release | 2014-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317817915 |
This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church's views on human rights. It analyzes the detail of the document, and assesses the practical and political impact inside the Church, at the national level and in the international arena. Overall, it shows how the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church has shifted from outright hostility towards individual human rights to the advocacy of "traditional values."
Russia and European Human-Rights Law
Title | Russia and European Human-Rights Law PDF eBook |
Author | Lauri Mälksoo |
Publisher | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic Publi |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2014-11-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9789004203303 |
"In this book, Lauri Mèalksoo and his co-authors critically examine Russia's experiences as part of the European human-rights protection system since its admittance to the Council of Europe in 1998. The authors combine legal and constructivist international-relations theory perspectives in studying Russia's practice and rhetoric as a member of the Council of Europe and a subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights."--Back cover.
Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights in Europe
Title | Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth A. Diamantopoulou |
Publisher | Dieux, Hommes et Religions / Gods, Humans and Religions |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Human rights |
ISBN | 9782807604209 |
This collective book aims at examining in what terms, and to what extent, the "reception" of the Human Rights doctrine takes place in Eastern Orthodox countries, as well as in the Orthodox diaspora. A series of questions are raised regarding the resources and theological structures that are mobilized in the overall Human Rights' debate and controversy, the theological "interpretation" of Human Rights within the Eastern Orthodox spiritual tradition, and the similarities and/or divergences of this "interpretation", compared to the other Christian confessions. Special attention is given to the various Orthodox actors on the international arena, aside the national Orthodox churches, which participate in the Ecumenical dialogue, as well as the dialogue with the European and international institutions. Religious freedom, as a fundamental Human right, guaranteed by the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), constitutes a key-issue that contributes to broadening the reflections on the overall Human Rights-related problematic between East and West, by shading light on the more complex issue pertaining to the conceptualization and implementation of Human Rights in countries belonging to the Eastern Orthodox tradition. The present volume studies the diversity that characterizes the Orthodox theological traditions and interpretations regarding Human Rights, not only in terms of an "external", or a "strategical" approach of socio-political and ecclesial nature, but also through a reflexive analysis of theological discourses.
Freedom and Responsibility
Title | Freedom and Responsibility PDF eBook |
Author | Kirill (Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia) |
Publisher | Darton Longman and Todd |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Christian sociology |
ISBN | 9780232528701 |
Freedom and Responsibility: A Search for Harmony is a remarkable personal vision of a ‘multi-polar’ future for the world by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. Two antagonistic systems are ranged against each other, one liberal, secular and humanistic, the other religious and traditionalist. Patriarch Kirill draws on the bitter experience of the Russian people in the twentieth century to illustrate the dangers of totalitarianism and how grave the break with one’s spiritual roots can be for civilization. Rather than a struggle to the death between competing value systems, he proposes instead the way of co-existence, grounded in mutual respect for moral categories that are common to all. He calls not for liberal values to be abandoned but to be supplemented by other cultural and philosophical systems, and to create a harmony between the two, not just with declarations of mutual friendship and respect but also through the reform of law and global governance. The Patriarch shares the concerns of Pope Benedict XVI for the dangers of moral relativism. ‘The Catholic and the Orthodox Churches are, it seems, the only allies in the tough struggle between secular liberalism infected with the bacillus of self-destruction and bearers of the forward-looking idea of human salvation.’Freedom and Responsibility is an invaluable introduction to the thinking of the Russian Orthodox Church on the relations between the Church and the wider world.
Global Eastern Orthodoxy
Title | Global Eastern Orthodoxy PDF eBook |
Author | Giuseppe Giordan |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2020-02-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030286878 |
This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights. The chapters in Part I address the challenges of modern human rights discourse to Orthodox Christianity and examine conditions for active presence of Orthodox churches in the public sphere of plural societies. It suggests theoretical and empirical considerations about the relationship between politics and Orthodoxy by exploring topics such as globalization, participatory democracy, and the linkage of religious and political discourses in Russia, Greece, Belarus, Romania, and Cyprus. Part II looks at the issues of diaspora and identity in global Orthodoxy, presenting cases from Switzerland, America, Italy, and Germany. In doing so, the book ties in with the growing interest resulting from the novelty of socio-political, economic, and cultural changes which have forced religious groups and organizations to revise and redesign their own institutional structures, practices, and agendas.