Relations between church and state in Russia today

According to its constitution the Russian Federation is a secular state in which all religious associations are equal before the law. The constitution also guarantees freedom of religious choice and practice. Federal legislation, as well as the legislation of the republics, should be in accordance w...

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Main Author: Codevilla, Giovanni (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2008
In: Religion, state & society
Year: 2008, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-138
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520 |a According to its constitution the Russian Federation is a secular state in which all religious associations are equal before the law. The constitution also guarantees freedom of religious choice and practice. Federal legislation, as well as the legislation of the republics, should be in accordance with these clearly formulated principles. Many provisions in the federal law on religion of 1997, however, are in conflict with them. Moreover, in practice the statement in the preamble to that law regarding the historical role of Orthodoxy and that of other ‘traditional religions’ is arbitrarily interpreted to justify a privileged position for Orthodoxy and to some extent for Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. The ‘secularity’ of a state does not entail the marginalisation of religion. A secular state should take account of the historical role and importance of each religion. The Russian state may legitimately award Orthodoxy a position of primus inter pares and privileges of honour in comparison with other religions on the basis of proportionality. These should not, however, take the form of legal advantages. Orthodoxy can perfectly well play the role of ‘official’ religion, but it should not be a ‘state’ religion. It would be advisable to establish a system of bilateral agreements between each religious association and the state and to create a fiscal system that allowed citizens who declare that they belong to a given religious faith to devote part of their taxes to the financial support of that faith. ∗This is a translated and edited version of ‘Otnosheniya mezhdu tronom i altarem v Rossiiskoi Federatsii (vzglyad iz Italii)’ in Religiya i obshchestvo: chast' II: religiozhyye traditsii v usloviyakh globalizatsii (Moscow, Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, 2007), pp. 15-64. 
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