The Visible Religion; The Russian Orthodox Church and her Relations with State and Society in Post-Soviet Canon Law (1992-2015)

TheRussian Orthodox Church in her post-Soviet canon law suggests a comprehensive cultural program of modernity that combines transcendence and immanence, theological and social reasoning, an afterlife strategy and cooperation with secular actors, whereby eschatology and the human rights discourse become two sides of the same coin.

Alexander Ponomariov researches religion (Orthodox Christianity) and politics in Russia and Eastern Europe. He studied Orthodox theology in Moscow and earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Passau in Germany. His academic interests also include translingual Bible criticism and Semitic languages.