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Uzlaner, Dmitry (2018). The End of the Pro-Orthodox Consensus: Religion as a New Cleavage in Russian Society, in: Koellner, Tobias (Hrsg.): Orthodox Religion and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe: On Multiple Secularisms and Entanglements. London ; New York: Routledge, 173–192. Funding For this publication, Dmitry Uzlaner acknowledges funding from the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) under the START Program (Post-secular Conflicts, grant agreement no. Y-919).

This article analyzes materials generated by and related to the Pussy Riot Trial, which was conducted in response to the scandalous "Punk Prayer" performed by the musical group on February 21, 2012 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. These materials are used to illustrate the peculiarities of the post-secular situation in Russia, focusing on two particular issues: 1) The "Punk Prayer" and the religious-secular boundary; 2) The "Punk Prayer" and post-secular hybrids. Uzlaner emphasizes that post-secularism does not follow a single pattern and has not led to a unified normative vision. To understand the post-secular situation, we should turn our attention to collisions between different normative models of post-secularism, each supported by its own actors and activists. The Pussy Riot case and its discussion in the public sphere allow us to single out two such models: the "pro- authority" (supported by state and Church leadership) and the "oppositional" (supported by the political opposition and opposition within the Church).

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the "conservative turn" in Russia under Putin. Its fifteen chapters, written by renowned specialists in the field, provide a focused examination of what Russian conservatism is and how it works. The book features in-depth discussions of the historical dimensions of conservatism, the contemporary international context, the theoretical conceptualization of conservatism, and empirical case studies. Among various issues covered by the volume are the geopolitical and religious dimensions of conservatism and the conservative perspective on Russian history and the politics of memory. The authors show that conservative ideology condenses and reworks a number of discussions about Russia's identity and its place in the world.

In the globalizing culture wars of the twenty-first century, Americans are discovering Russia as a new haven of traditionalism and Russian conservatives are re-inventing themselves as the traditionalist leaders of the world. While American and Russian conservatives reach out to each other, liberal critics and moderate Orthodox put this new alliance into question and reclaim tradition from the traditionalists. This edited volume gathers interviews and original essays for a confrontational debate about the meaning of religion, tradition, and liberalism in Russia and in the United States.; In den sich globalisierenden Kulturkriegen des 21. Jahrhunderts entdecken die Amerikaner Russland als neuen Hafen des Traditionalismus und die russischen Konservativen erfinden sich als traditionalistische Führer der Welt neu. Während sich amerikanische und russische Konservative gegenseitig unterstützen, stellen liberale Kritiker und gemäßigte Orthodoxe dieses neue Bündnis in Frage und fordern die Tradition der Traditionalisten zurück. Dieser Band enthält Interviews und Essays für eine Debatte über die Bedeutung von Religion, Tradition und Liberalismus in Russland und den Vereinigten Staaten.

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 in which religion, critique, and the human right of religious freedom have been defined in the present Russian context. In response to Pussy Riot, the Russian legislator turned offending religious feelings into a crime. The article investigates two more recent cases where offended feelings of believers were involved, the opera "Tannhäuser" in Ekaterinburg in 2015 and the movie Matilda in 2017, and analyses how the initial power-conforming configuration that emerged as a reply to the 'punk prayer' has revealed a 'power-disturbing' potential as conservative Orthodox groups have started to challenge the authority of the State and the Church leadership. The article is based on primary sources from Russian debates surrounding Pussy Riot, Matilda, and "Tannhäuser" and on theoretical literature on the religious-secular boundary and human rights. ; (VLID)5298525 ; Version of record

This publication is part of Beaumont, Justin (ed.) (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity, New York: Routledge. Fundings For this publication, Kristina Stoeckl acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (POSEC, grant agreement no. ERC-STG-2015-676804). Dmitry Uzlaner acknowledges funding from the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) under the START Program (Post-secular Conflicts, grant agreement no. Y-919).