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"Explains the dynamics and mechanisms behind the backlash against sex and gender based human rights in eastern Europe and the Orthodox world and shows how Russia came to assume a leadership role in the global culture wars"--
List of contents
Preface | vii
Introduction | 1
PART I: LEARNING THE CULTURE WARS1 Religion: Conservative Aggiornamento and the Globalization of the Culture Wars | 17
2 History: The Sources of Russia's Traditional-Values Conservatism | 29
3 Intellectual Roots: The Shared Legacy of Pitirim Sorokin | 50
4 Context: The Rise of Traditional-Values Conservatism inside Russia | 66
PART II: DOING THE CULTURE WARS5 Ambitions: The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Transnational Conservative Alliances | 87
6 Networks: Civil Society and the Rise of the Russian Christian Right | 103
7 Strategies: The Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Discourse in a Transnational Context | 126
8 Leadership: Russian Traditional-Values Conservatism and State Diplomacy | 136
Epilogue | 153
Acknowledgments | 157
Bibliography | 159
Index | 193
About the author
Kristina Stoeckl (Author) Kristina Stoeckl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The most recent of her books are
The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (Routledge, 2014) and
Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism (Brill, 2020).
Dmitry Uzlaner (Author) Dmitry Uzlaner is research fellow at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia. The most recent of his books are
The Postsecular Turn: How to Think about Religion in the Twenty-First Century (in Russian, Izdatel'stvo instituta gaiidara, 2020),
The End of Religion? A History of the Theory of Secularization (in Russian, Higher School of Economics Press, 2019), and
Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives (Brill, 2019, co-edited with Mikhail Suslov).
