Objective The project European Orthodoxy addresses the relationship between religion, democracy and human rights using Orthodox Christianity as a case study. It investigates how religious traditions reconcile their universal claims with democratic decision making and individual human rights in modern society both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. From the theoretical angle, the project studies and makes a contribution to contextual approaches in normative political theory, investigating how democracy and human rights can be conceptualized without making recourse to universalist formulations and without submitting to arbitrary particularism. From the empirical angle, the project analyzes the standpoints of contemporary Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian Orthodoxy on democracy and human rights and compares them. The aim of the comparison is to draw together three studies of national Orthodox traditions into one picture and offer a transnational conceptual of approaches to democracy and human rights in European Orthodoxy. On the basis of the comparative case-study the researcher will reflect on the normative starting point of the research-project and elaborate on the potentials and theoretical and methodological challenges of contextualized political theory. The project proposed by the researcher (Austria) envisions a duration of 24 months, based at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracyhumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionreligionschristianityhumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophypolitical philosophysocial scienceslawhuman rights Keywords Bulgaria Comparative religion Democracy Europe Human rights Orthodox theology Political theory Russia Secularism Serbia Sociology of religion Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA EU contribution € 156 043,51 Address VIA CRACOVIA 50 00133 Roma Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Renato Lauro (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
