Description: "Explains the dynamics and mechanisms behind the backlash against sex and gender based human rights in eastern Europe and the Orthodox world and shows how Russia came to assume a leadership role in the global culture wars"--
Brief description: Kristina Stoeckl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The most recent of her books are The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (Routledge, 2014) and Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism (Brill, 2020).
Review Quotes: In a study that is both illuminating and infuriating, Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner show how Russia's Orthodox Church--historically, the heart of one of the world's great religious communions--has wholeheartedly committed itself to an intimate alliance with an evil state and its deeply reactionary social positions.-- "The Christian Century"