Kristina Stoeckl

Looking at religion-state relations in the context of Orthodox Christianity my project explores the normative-theoretical and conceptual challenges which religious traditional arguments pose to contemporary debates on religion, politics and postsecularism. The project wants to contribute to the definition of “multiple secularism of modern democracies” (Alfred Stepan) with regard to Orthodox Christianity through case studies in Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and Orthodox “diaspora” communities. In assessing debates about democracy and liberal norms in the Orthodox context the project evaluates religious-traditional and cultural-majoritarian strategies of argumentation for contemporary debates on politics and religion. 

The project The Perils of Moralism: Russian Orthodoxy and Russian Politics is related to IWM’s research focus “Russia in Global Dialogue” and Kristina Stoeckl’s research project Religious Traditionalism and Politics.

Looking at religion-state relations in the context of Orthodox Christianity my project explores the normative-theoretical and conceptual challenges which religious traditional arguments pose to contemporary debates on religion, politics and postsecularism. The project wants to contribute to the definition of “multiple secularism of modern democracies” (Alfred Stepan) with regard to Orthodox Christianity through case studies in Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and Orthodox “diaspora” communities. In assessing debates about democracy and liberal norms in the Orthodox context the project evaluates religious-traditional and cultural-majoritarian strategies of argumentation for contemporary debates on politics and religion.