Kristina Stoeckl
Biographic Data
| ID | 276603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Stoeckl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoeckl |
| SIGNATURE | STOECKL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5043-2977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
La religion et les valeurs traditionnelles
Dans cet article, nous établissons que le discours russe sur les valeurs traditionnelles doit une grande partie de son contenu et de sa formulation stratégique aux guerres culturelles mondiales. En remontant beaucoup plus loin que les récentes élaborations du Kremlin, nous examinons les origines des débats sur les valeurs publiques en Russie depuis la période de la perestroïka, lorsque les acteurs russes ont été socialisés à la réalité des guerre…
The Pact of the Old Guard
This article examines the evolution of the Russian Orthodox Church’s identities and political alignments from the post-Soviet era to the present in three chronological phases. First, the author explores the church’s varied post-Soviet identities shaped by experiences of repression, collaboration, dissidence, and emigration from 1991 to approximately 2010. The author identifies key legislative and political developments between 2010 and 2021 that …
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
An in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights—and how the LGBTI movement responds to it In the past three decades, remarkable progress has been made in numerous countries for the rights of individuals marginalized due to their sexual orientation and gender identity. The advancements in LGBTI rights can largely be attributed to the tireless efforts of the transnational LGBTI-rights movement, forward-thinking governments in pionee…
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy
The rights of people who are marginalised by their sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTI) have improved in many countries. Largely, these achievements can be traced back to the ‘spiral model’ of factors including transnational mobilisation by the LGBTI rights movement, the actions of a few pioneering governments, and advances in the human rights frameworks of some international organisations (IOs). Yet a rising and increasingly globally c…
The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights
This essay explores the troubling global pattern of illiberal governments weaponizing the issue of LGBTIQ rights. We argue that the fluidity of sexual orientation and gender identity makes LGBTIQ people susceptible targets for antidemocratic forces, allowing autocratic and illiberal regimes to contrast these identities with the perceived stability of tradition, national sovereignty, and conventional notions of "nature." Political homo- and transp…
The Moralist International
p emThe Moralist International/em analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the cl…
Russia’s Spiritual Security Doctrine as a Challenge to European Comprehensive Security Approaches
In the context of a special symposium in The Review of Faith & International Affairs dedicated to the OSCE Policy Guidance "Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security," this article offers a comparison of the comprehensive security approach in that document and rival Russian understandings of national and human security
Reframing human rights
In this article, we investigate the composition and actions of a principled issue network within the field of human rights that uses rights-claims to pursue traditionalist goals: the moral conservative pro-homeschooling network. We analyse the rising importance of homeschooling within the global moral conservative movement and examine the transnationalization of pro-homeschooling advocacy. We show that the transnational homeschooling advocacy net…
Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism
Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism surveys the ways in which the Russian Orthodox Church has negotiated its relationship with the secular state, with other religions, and with Western modernity from its beginnings until the present. It applies multiple theoretical perspectives and draws on different disciplinary approaches to explain the varied and at times contradictory facets of Russian Orthodoxy as a state church or as a critic of the state, as …
The rise of the Russian Christian Right
This article offers a case study of the Russian-American pro-family organisation the World Congress of Families, explaining its emergence, strategies, and religious and political agenda from 1995 until 2019. The article adds to a growing body of research that sheds light on transnational networks of conservative and right-wing political and civil society actors. It zooms in on Russian pro-family activists as connected to such networks and thereby…
Human Rights
The political sociology of human rights is a recent, steadily growing field of sociology. Prevalent approaches today are informed by social constructivist theories and take an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, drawing on philosophy, history, political science, and law, as well as subdisciplines and specialties such as cultural sociology and the sociology of law. Sociologists who study human rights analyze conditions in which rights claims …
From Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ to Matilda
This article analyses the configurations of belief, critique, and religious freedom in Russia since the performance of the Russian group Pussy Riot in 2012. The ‘punk prayer’ and its legal and political aftermath are interpreted as an incidence of the contestation of the boundary between the secular and the religious in the Russian legal and social sphere. The authors show that the outcome of this contestation has had a decisive impact on the way…
Three Models of Church-State Relations in Contemporary Russia
Accepted Manuscript of: Stoeckl, Kristina (2020). Three Models of Church-State Relations in Contemporary Russia, in: Mancini, Susanna (ed.): Constitutions and Religion, Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law Series. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 237–251. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/constitutions-and-religion-9781786439284.html
Activists beyond Confessional Borders
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 c…
Double bind at the UN
This article is dedicated to analysis of the traditionalist agenda, promoted by Russia, in recent debates in the United Nations Human Rights Council (‘Traditional values’ from 2009 to 2013, ‘Protection of the family’ from 2014 to 2017). The traditionalist agenda could be interpreted as yet another chapter of contextualist opposition to the universalist application human of rights and as a successor to the cultural relativism in human rights promo…
The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today's moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin's recep…
The Russian Orthodox Church's Conservative Crusade
The Russian Orthodox Church has emerged as a powerful force for cultural, social, and political conservatism
Political liberalism and religious claims
This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being either ‘liberal’ or ‘fundamentalist’ and ignores a t…
Institutional Responses to Religious Diversity
Introduction
European Integration and Russian Orthodoxy
European integration, the overcoming of ideological divisions and the creation of shared institutions, is a process of defining common ground between Europe's multiple modernities, and it includes the re-negotiation of the place of religion. For Eisenstadt, religion does indeed constitute the main factor in the emergence of multiple modernities, since he sees multiple modernities rooted in earlier patterns of axial age civilizations, which, in tu…
Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies
Contents: Introduction, Massimo Rosati and Kristina Stoeckl From multiple modernities to multiple democracies, Alessandro Ferrara Multifaceted or fragmented public spheres in Turkey and Iran, Ugur Komecoglu The Turkish laboratory: local modernity and the postsecular in Turkey, Massimo Rosati Russia's 'cursed issues', post-Soviet religion, and the endurance of secular modernity, Alexander Agadjanian European integration and Russian Orthodoxy: two …
The Russian Orthodox Church as moral norm entrepreneur
Conflicts over religious symbols in the public sphere, gay marriage, abortion or gender equality have shown their disruptive potential across many societies in the world. They have also become the subject of political and legal debates in international institutions. These conflicts emerge out of different worldviews and normative conceptions of the good, and they are frequently framed in terms of competing interpretations of human rights. One new…
Interview with Sergey Horujy
Muslim soldiers, Muslim chaplains
The institution of military chaplaincy is specifically Christian, or more exactly Catholic: there are no appointed Muslim military imams in most Muslim countries (the only exception being Jordan, w
The Russian Orthodox Church as moral norm entrepreneur
Conflicts over religious symbols in the public sphere, gay marriage, abortion or gender equality have shown their disruptive potential across many societies in the world. They have also become the subject of political and legal debates in international institutions. These conflicts emerge out of different worldviews and normative conceptions of the good, and they are frequently framed in terms of competing interpretations of human rights. One new…
The rise of the Russian Christian Right
This article offers a case study of the Russian-American pro-family organisation the World Congress of Families, explaining its emergence, strategies, and religious and political agenda from 1995 until 2019. The article adds to a growing body of research that sheds light on transnational networks of conservative and right-wing political and civil society actors. It zooms in on Russian pro-family activists as connected to such networks and thereby…
The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights
This essay explores the troubling global pattern of illiberal governments weaponizing the issue of LGBTIQ rights. We argue that the fluidity of sexual orientation and gender identity makes LGBTIQ people susceptible targets for antidemocratic forces, allowing autocratic and illiberal regimes to contrast these identities with the perceived stability of tradition, national sovereignty, and conventional notions of "nature." Political homo- and transp…
Religious Organisations as Political Actors in the Context of Migration
This paper investigates how immigration and concerns over integration are changing established modes of cooperation between church and state in Austria. Focusing on the relationship between officially recognised Muslim and Eastern Orthodox organizations and the state, we examine how the mounting politicisation of immigrant integration has led the state to collaborate with minority religious organisations as representatives of immigrants and is in…
Double bind at the UN
This article is dedicated to analysis of the traditionalist agenda, promoted by Russia, in recent debates in the United Nations Human Rights Council (‘Traditional values’ from 2009 to 2013, ‘Protection of the family’ from 2014 to 2017). The traditionalist agenda could be interpreted as yet another chapter of contextualist opposition to the universalist application human of rights and as a successor to the cultural relativism in human rights promo…
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy
The rights of people who are marginalised by their sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTI) have improved in many countries. Largely, these achievements can be traced back to the ‘spiral model’ of factors including transnational mobilisation by the LGBTI rights movement, the actions of a few pioneering governments, and advances in the human rights frameworks of some international organisations (IOs). Yet a rising and increasingly globally c…
Political liberalism and religious claims
This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being either ‘liberal’ or ‘fundamentalist’ and ignores a t…
The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today's moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin's recep…
Reframing human rights
In this article, we investigate the composition and actions of a principled issue network within the field of human rights that uses rights-claims to pursue traditionalist goals: the moral conservative pro-homeschooling network. We analyse the rising importance of homeschooling within the global moral conservative movement and examine the transnationalization of pro-homeschooling advocacy. We show that the transnational homeschooling advocacy net…
The Human Rights Debate in the External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church
This article analyses the ideological and institutional context of the document The Russian Orthodox Church's Basic Teaching on Human Dignity, Freedom and Rights (Osnovy ucheniya Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi o dostoinstve, svobode i pravakh cheloveka), issued by the Bishops' Council of the Moscow Patriarchate in 2008, with the particular aim of shedding light on its nature as an instrument of the external relations and foreign politics of the Rus…
European integration and Russian Orthodoxy
This article introduces a distinction in the paradigm of multiple modernities between a comparative-civilizational and a post-secular perspective. It argues that the former perspective helps us to understand modernization processes in large cultural-civilizational units, whereas the latter viewpoint focuses on actors and cultural domains within civilizational units and on inter-civilizational crossovers. The two perspectives are complementary. Wh…
Russia’s Spiritual Security Doctrine as a Challenge to European Comprehensive Security Approaches
In the context of a special symposium in The Review of Faith & International Affairs dedicated to the OSCE Policy Guidance "Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security," this article offers a comparison of the comprehensive security approach in that document and rival Russian understandings of national and human security
From Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ to Matilda
This article analyses the configurations of belief, critique, and religious freedom in Russia since the performance of the Russian group Pussy Riot in 2012. The ‘punk prayer’ and its legal and political aftermath are interpreted as an incidence of the contestation of the boundary between the secular and the religious in the Russian legal and social sphere. The authors show that the outcome of this contestation has had a decisive impact on the way…
The Impact of the Return of Religion on Theoretical Approaches to Democracy and Governance in the Social and Political Sciences
The survey article analyses the impact of the return of religion on theoretical approaches to democracy and governance in the social and political sciences and spells out the normative and practical implications of a post‐secular research programme on politics and religion. Reviewing the recent theoretical literature in the field, the author argues that there is a post‐secular revision underway in the social and political sciences. This revision …
Human Rights
The political sociology of human rights is a recent, steadily growing field of sociology. Prevalent approaches today are informed by social constructivist theories and take an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, drawing on philosophy, history, political science, and law, as well as subdisciplines and specialties such as cultural sociology and the sociology of law. Sociologists who study human rights analyze conditions in which rights claims …
Muslim soldiers, Muslim chaplains
The institution of military chaplaincy is specifically Christian, or more exactly Catholic: there are no appointed Muslim military imams in most Muslim countries (the only exception being Jordan, w
The lesson of the revolution in Russian émigré theology and contemporary Orthodox thought
This paper cuts across the whole spectrum of Orthodox thought in Russia today, both clerical and lay, both theological and philosophical, in order to show the different ways in which Orthodox thinkers have reflected (or not reflected) upon the experience of totalitarianism. The point which I want to make here is that many representatives of Russian Orthodoxy-and most casual western observers-overlook 'the lesson taught by the revolution'. This le…
The lesson of the revolution in Russian émigré theology and contemporary Orthodox thought
This paper cuts across the whole spectrum of Orthodox thought in Russia today, both clerical and lay, both theological and philosophical, in order to show the different ways in which Orthodox thinkers have reflected (or not reflected) upon the experience of totalitarianism. The point which I want to make here is that many representatives of Russian Orthodoxy-and most casual western observers-overlook 'the lesson taught by the revolution'. This le…
The Impact of the Return of Religion on Theoretical Approaches to Democracy and Governance in the Social and Political Sciences
The survey article analyses the impact of the return of religion on theoretical approaches to democracy and governance in the social and political sciences and spells out the normative and practical implications of a post‐secular research programme on politics and religion. Reviewing the recent theoretical literature in the field, the author argues that there is a post‐secular revision underway in the social and political sciences. This revision …
Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945–91
Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945–91, edited by Lucian N. Leustean. London, New York: Routledge, 2010, xvii+363 pp. This volume contains an overview of the situation of 35 Orthodox church
Religious Organisations as Political Actors in the Context of Migration
This paper investigates how immigration and concerns over integration are changing established modes of cooperation between church and state in Austria. Focusing on the relationship between officially recognised Muslim and Eastern Orthodox organizations and the state, we examine how the mounting politicisation of immigrant integration has led the state to collaborate with minority religious organisations as representatives of immigrants and is in…
The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought
European integration and Russian Orthodoxy
This article introduces a distinction in the paradigm of multiple modernities between a comparative-civilizational and a post-secular perspective. It argues that the former perspective helps us to understand modernization processes in large cultural-civilizational units, whereas the latter viewpoint focuses on actors and cultural domains within civilizational units and on inter-civilizational crossovers. The two perspectives are complementary. Wh…
The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer
The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer: Contesting Contemplation CHRISTOPHER D. L. JOHNSON, 2010 Continuum Advances in Religious Studies London & New York: Continuum 206 pp., £65.00, U
The Human Rights Debate in the External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church
This article analyses the ideological and institutional context of the document The Russian Orthodox Church's Basic Teaching on Human Dignity, Freedom and Rights (Osnovy ucheniya Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi o dostoinstve, svobode i pravakh cheloveka), issued by the Bishops' Council of the Moscow Patriarchate in 2008, with the particular aim of shedding light on its nature as an instrument of the external relations and foreign politics of the Rus…
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, edited by Bruce R. Berglund and Brian Porter-Szűcs. Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2010, 386 pp., ISBN: 978-963-9776-65-4. The n
Politics, Religion and Gender
This book gathers research results from a collaborative research project funded by the Sixth European Research Framework of the European Commission from 2006 to 2009. The VEIL project investigated
Massimo Rosati (1969−2014)
Muslim soldiers, Muslim chaplains
The institution of military chaplaincy is specifically Christian, or more exactly Catholic: there are no appointed Muslim military imams in most Muslim countries (the only exception being Jordan, w
Institutional Responses to Religious Diversity
Introduction
European Integration and Russian Orthodoxy
European integration, the overcoming of ideological divisions and the creation of shared institutions, is a process of defining common ground between Europe's multiple modernities, and it includes the re-negotiation of the place of religion. For Eisenstadt, religion does indeed constitute the main factor in the emergence of multiple modernities, since he sees multiple modernities rooted in earlier patterns of axial age civilizations, which, in tu…
Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies
Contents: Introduction, Massimo Rosati and Kristina Stoeckl From multiple modernities to multiple democracies, Alessandro Ferrara Multifaceted or fragmented public spheres in Turkey and Iran, Ugur Komecoglu The Turkish laboratory: local modernity and the postsecular in Turkey, Massimo Rosati Russia's 'cursed issues', post-Soviet religion, and the endurance of secular modernity, Alexander Agadjanian European integration and Russian Orthodoxy: two …
The Russian Orthodox Church as moral norm entrepreneur
Conflicts over religious symbols in the public sphere, gay marriage, abortion or gender equality have shown their disruptive potential across many societies in the world. They have also become the subject of political and legal debates in international institutions. These conflicts emerge out of different worldviews and normative conceptions of the good, and they are frequently framed in terms of competing interpretations of human rights. One new…
Interview with Sergey Horujy
The Russian Orthodox Church's Conservative Crusade
The Russian Orthodox Church has emerged as a powerful force for cultural, social, and political conservatism
Political liberalism and religious claims
This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being either ‘liberal’ or ‘fundamentalist’ and ignores a t…
Three Models of Church-State Relations in Contemporary Russia
Accepted Manuscript of: Stoeckl, Kristina (2020). Three Models of Church-State Relations in Contemporary Russia, in: Mancini, Susanna (ed.): Constitutions and Religion, Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law Series. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 237–251. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/constitutions-and-religion-9781786439284.html
Activists beyond Confessional Borders
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 c…
Double bind at the UN
This article is dedicated to analysis of the traditionalist agenda, promoted by Russia, in recent debates in the United Nations Human Rights Council (‘Traditional values’ from 2009 to 2013, ‘Protection of the family’ from 2014 to 2017). The traditionalist agenda could be interpreted as yet another chapter of contextualist opposition to the universalist application human of rights and as a successor to the cultural relativism in human rights promo…
The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today's moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin's recep…
From Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ to Matilda
This article analyses the configurations of belief, critique, and religious freedom in Russia since the performance of the Russian group Pussy Riot in 2012. The ‘punk prayer’ and its legal and political aftermath are interpreted as an incidence of the contestation of the boundary between the secular and the religious in the Russian legal and social sphere. The authors show that the outcome of this contestation has had a decisive impact on the way…
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