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Orthodox Christianity and Modern Human Rights: Theorising Their Nexus and Addressing Orthodox Specificities

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This chapter addresses the challenges posed by the modern human rights discourse to Orthodox Christianity, given that Orthodox Churches and individual Orthodox thinkers have expressed quite varied and diverging positions on this key issue; for example, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew and the Russian Orthodox Church. The first part of the chapter deals with selective theoretical perspectives that have been applied so far to an analysis of the relations between Orthodox Christianity and modern human rights; for example, the comparative civilizational analysis, the multiple modernities paradigm, the post-secularity, de-secularization and multiple secularities approach, postcolonial and postmodern perspectives, ethnicity and nationalism studies, globalization studies, as well as political science and international relations perspectives. The second part of the chapter attempts to chart, contextualize and explain the various Orthodox Christian specificities with regard to modern human rights. These pertain, among other things, to the Orthodox introversive attitudes in modern times, the anti-Westernism, the still pending fruitful encounter between Orthodoxy and modernity, the weak world-relatedness, and the overall marginality of the Orthodox discourse. Nevertheless, the growing Orthodox interest in the topic is a positive sign and attests to the promising developments that are currently taking place within this traditional religious system.

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Makrides, V.N. (2020). Orthodox Christianity and Modern Human Rights: Theorising Their Nexus and Addressing Orthodox Specificities. In: Giordan, G., Zrinščak, S. (eds) Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28687-3_2

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