Petr and Fevronia, and the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness. Pronatalism and Unstable Gender Order in Today’s Russia

Dukhanova, Diana

doi:10.22394/2073-7203-2018-36-2-194-220

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“…Regional governors make an opening speech [Makashova 2013, p. 252], and then-Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the celebrations in Murom. This public celebration aims to propagate the image of the ideal family based on heterosexual marriage, fidelity and the presence of several children [Dukhanova 2018[Dukhanova , p. 2010. According to Khasbulatova the creation of such holidays is "aimed at introducing into the consciousness of the masses the values of love, loyalty, strong and numerous families" [Khasbulatova 2011, p. 10].…”

Section: Valorisation Of Heterosexual Marriagementioning

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The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the State’s Promotion of the “Traditional” Family as Part of Family Policy

Русских

2022

Мир России

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Since the 2010s, the Russian government has promoted a family model in its family policy – a heterosexual married couple with three children – explicitly defined as “traditional”. This definition is close to the representation of the family by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), which, since the 2000s, has positioned itself as an actor in family policy, in particular through the establishment of “The Committee of Patriarchs on the Family, Child Welfare and Motherhood” serving as an intermediary with the State. I show that the ROC and the State offer comparable family models and that they work closely together in the implementation of family policy. I show how the Russian government and the ROC support religiously motivated actions, including promotional events such as the creation of new holidays and restrictive measures such as limiting the right to abortion. I conclude that the demographic crisis led Russian family policy in the 2000s to combine a natalist dimension with a traditionalist dimension that values a family model based on ROC values. This work is based on official documentation and the results of a field work conducted between 2015 and 2018 in the Ulyanovsk Oblast. I conducted interviews with two categories of the population: officials of different governmental structures directly related to family policy and ROC priests. The choice of this region was motivated by the involvement of local authorities and ROC representatives in the realisation of the objectives of the federal family policy.

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Section: Valorisation Of Heterosexual Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the State’s Promotion of the “Traditional” Family as Part of Family Policy

Русских

2022

Мир России

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“Everything good against everything bad”: traditional values in the search for new Russian national idea

Stepanova

2022

Z Religion Ges Polit

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The purpose of the article is to explore origins, development and meaning of the Russian Orthodox Church's concept of traditional values in comparison with its interpreting and utilizing by the Russian political powers through the analysis of the main statements of the ROC's hierarchs, as well as of leading political figures in the period 2000s until nowadays. The following research questions are formulated: What are traditional values in the ROC's and state understanding, and what is the purpose of their promotion? What is the impact of traditional values discourse over people? The conclusion is made that traditional values are seen as one of substantial elements of the present-day Russian political and ideological conservatism and the core element of the identity construction. The ROC as the prominent and influential religious body is seen by political powers, as well as by general public, to be most notably linked to morality; and she seems to take for granted the status of moral authority. At the same time, there is a lack of reliable data, which make possible to estimate the real impact of traditional values over Russian people and the amount of those who share them.

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Zwischen Patriarchat und Pussy Riot

Elsner¹

2022

Religionswissenschaft

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Petr and Fevronia, and the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness. Pronatalism and Unstable Gender Order in Today’s Russia

Cited by 3 publications

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The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the State’s Promotion of the “Traditional” Family as Part of Family Policy

The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the State’s Promotion of the “Traditional” Family as Part of Family Policy

“Everything good against everything bad”: traditional values in the search for new Russian national idea

Zwischen Patriarchat und Pussy Riot

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