10.22394/2073-7203-2018-36-4-58-86
https://zenodo.org/records/3238171
oai:zenodo.org:3238171
Stoeckl, Kristina
Kristina
Stoeckl
0000-0001-5043-2977
Aktivisty vne konfessional'nykh granits: «konservativnyy ekumenizm» Vsemirnogo kongressa semey
Zenodo
2018
Russian Orthodox Church
World Congress of Families
Value Polarization
Traditional Values
Allan Carlson
Anatoly Antonov
Value-Oriented Geopolitics
2018-01-01
2073-7203
2073-7211
https://zenodo.org/communities/postsecularconflicts
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
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This article is devoted to the history of the World Congress of Families (WCF) and its interaction with Russian partners. The article begins with a story about Allan Carlson’s trip to Moscow in 1995, where as a result of a meeting with sociologists, the idea of creating a WCF was born. The author then analyses the cooperation between the WCF and the Russian Orthodox Church as an example of so‑called “conservative ecumenism,” which partly replaces classical, more liberal ecumenism, such as that presented by the World Council of Churches. Further, this interaction of the WCF with Russian partners is placed in a broader framework of value‑oriented geopolitics and culture wars in Europe, in which the WCF is actively involved. The author concludes that Russia’s turn to “traditional values” is not a reference to the country’s past but rather the reverse: namely, the reflection of value polarization in the pluralist society. The work is based on previously unpublished material, including interviews with activists, as well as archival materials related to the history of the WCF.
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
676804
Postsecular Conflicts and the role of Russian Orthodoxy in the transnational alliances of moral conservative traditionalists