The attitude of the Moscow Patriarchate towards other Orthodox churches

Curanović, Alicja

doi:10.1080/09637490701621679

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“…95 Moreover, Serbian Orthodoxy is another aspect that creates distance between the Protestant and Catholic traditions of Western europe (european identity) and closeness with Russian Orthodoxy, in part due to Russia's specific foreign policy and identity interests of cultivating allies in the region. 96 However, given the foreign policy realities of post-war Serbia and the benefits that come with eU membership, all major political leaders and parties since 2008 have been in support of european integration. 97 While eU integration may be outwardly supported, at the same time, in the context of LgBT rights and Pride Parades, elites have also served to undercut this reference to europe.…”

Section: Serbia: Nationalism Europeanization and Lgbt Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia

Swimelar

2018

East European Politics and Societies

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LGBT rights have come to be seen as allied with the idea of “Europe” and a European identity, particularly in the process of European Union enlargement to the East. Scholars have examined the ways in which external norms interact with more local, often “traditional” norms and identities. In this process, nationalism and conceptions of national identity and gender/sexuality norms can be seen as important factors that influence the domestic adoption of LGBT rights, particularly in the post-war Balkans. Croatia and Serbia (from approximately 2000 to 2014) present two interesting and different cases to analyze how discourses and dynamics of national and state identity construction, nationalism, and LGBT rights relate to discourses of “Europeanness” and European identity and how these affect the political dynamics of LGBT rights. This article finds that in Croatia, national identity was constructed in terms of convergence with European norms and identity, homonationalism was used to distinguish themselves from a “Balkan” identity, and there was a lower threat perception of the LGBT community framed primarily as a “threat to the family.” In Serbia, state and national identity was constructed in opposition to Europe and homosexuality had stronger threat perception, framed primarily as “threat to the nation.” In short, nationalism and national identity were less disadvantageous as a domestic constraint to LGBT rights in Croatia than in Serbia. The dynamics between nationalism and LGBT rights played out, for example, in the politics of the marriage referendum, Pride Parades, and public discourse more generally. This research contributes to the scholarship on LGBT rights and nationalism by empirically analyzing the different ways that nationalism, gender/sexuality, and European identity interrelate and influence LGBT rights change in a changing post-war identity landscape and how domestic constraints affect human rights norm diffusion.

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Section: Serbia: Nationalism Europeanization and Lgbt Rightsmentioning

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Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia

Swimelar

2018

East European Politics and Societies

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“…One of the central contemporary problems for the Ecumenical Patriarchate has been how to confront the growing influence on, and penetration of, the Orthodox commonwealth by the Moscow Patriarchate, which casts doubt on its own authority (Curanovic´, 2007;Avgerinos, 2009;Papachristos, 2009). At the same time, Moscow accuses Constantinople of usurping its canonical rights and intervening in the internal affairs of its canonical territory.…”

Section: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and The Inter-orthodox Balance Omentioning

confidence: 98%

Authority and Legitimisation: the Intraecclesial Strategy of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens

Papastathis

2011

Religion, State and Society

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The election of Ieronymos as archbishop of Athens took place at a critical moment for the Orthodox Church of Greece (OCG). On the one hand, the social credibility of religious bureaucracy was waning. On the other, a fundamentalist faction within the Synod was essentially questioning his authority. In order to confront these problems, Ieronymos found the necessary social and religious legitimisation via the partial democratisation of the administrative function of the OCG as well as the restoration of its relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople (the Ecumenical Patriarchate). The decoding of this intraecclesial strategy, starting from his election in

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“…During the 2000s the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has been taking an increasingly proactive line in developing variegated relations with non-Orthodox confessions and other Christian denominations and in the formulation of its theological and philosophical approach to interfaith relations, ecumenism, mission, human rights, social problems and church-state relations. Some experts see the earlier emphasis on 'canonical territory' giving way to an increasing emphasis on 'Russian civilisation' ('russkaya tsivilizatsiya') which can give coherence to ROC policy in the world outside the former Soviet Union, including its relations with the countries in the European Union and its competition there with the Ecumenical Patriarchate (on the latter subject see Curanovic´, 2007). Meanwhile in the context of this doctrine Russia itself is increasingly being presented not as a nation state but a pluralistic empire in which other traditional religions share 'Russian values'.…”

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Walters¹

2010

Religion, State and Society

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The attitude of the Moscow Patriarchate towards other Orthodox churches

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia

Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia

Authority and Legitimisation: the Intraecclesial Strategy of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens

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