Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Metreveli, Tornike

Titel

“We Are Now the Orthodox!”: religion in times of war in Ukraine: The competing discourses of identity

Ist Teil von

• Orthodox Christianity and the Politics of Transition, 2021, p.96-119

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The rivalry between the two major Orthodox churches – Moscow and Kyiv patriarchates – took on a distinctive shape after the Euromaidan Revolution, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and the ongoing war in Eastern Ukraine. On the one hand, post-Euromaidan Ukrainian political elites, under the leadership of then-President Poroshenko, invested heavily in religion as a pillar and unifying factor of the nation. On the other hand, a historical fusion between Orthodox Christianity and Russian nationalism manifested itself amidst the prevalence of “Russian world” discourse in Ukraine. The top-down elite discourse over the role of religion in Ukrainian state and societal life had divergent replications on the grassroots level. On the one hand, a typical motivation narrative for interconfessional changes was the responses of priests to the tragedies of war, which generated antagonism among the population. The war in eastern Ukraine was a triggering factor for some parishioners to choose loyalty to the Kyivan church over the person of local priest.