“Russkii mir”, Orthodoxy and War

Authors

  • Andrey Shishkov University of Tartu, Estonia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.2.5

Keywords:

"Russian world", myth, Roland Barthes, Russian Orthodox Church, political theology, war, Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This article consists of three parts. In the first part, I will talk about the structure of socio-political life in Russia over the last ten years to help understand the context. Here I will refer to the concept of dark times by the German political philosopher Hannah Arendt. In the second part, I will review the concepts of the "Russian world" used by Russian state propaganda to justify the war, posing to analyze it with the help of the theory of myth of the French philosopher Roland Barthes. In the third part, I will talk about the Russian Orthodox Church and its role in the ideological service of the authorities. In conclusion, I will attempt to reflect on the future.

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2023-01-14

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Shishkov, Andrey. 2023. “‘Russkii mir’, Orthodoxy and War”. Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology 20 (2):63-78. https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.2.5.

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