Dmitry Uzlaner
Biographic Data
| ID | 276602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dmitry Uzlaner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dmitry |
| FAMILY NAME | Uzlaner |
| SIGNATURE | UZLANER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4377-3252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Second Stage of the “Religious Revival” in Russia: How to Evaluate It from the Perspective of the Secularization Debate
This article focuses on the religious processes in Russia over the last fifteen years. The author has two objectives: on the one hand, to describe processes that can be called the second stage of the “religious revival” in contemporary Russia, and on the other hand, to place them within the context of theoretical discussions on secularization/desecularization. To achieve this goal, this article first examines the question of what secularization a…
The decline of religion or its social significance? An unresolved issue in the secularization debate
In the sociological debate on secularization two different approaches to its interpretation have been woven together: the loss of religion's social significance and the decline of (individual) religiosity. The author proposes to call them secularization (1) and secularization (2). In the heyday of the secularization theory, these interpretations were perceived as complementary and mutually reinforcing. However, as the integrated secularization mo…
La religion et les valeurs traditionnelles: La Russie dans les guerres culturelles transnationales
Dans cet article, nous établissons que le discours russe sur les valeurs traditionnelles doit une grande partie de son contenu et de sa formulation stratégique aux guerres culturelles mondiales. En remontant beaucoup plus loin que les récentes élaborations du Kremlin, nous examinons les origines des débats sur les valeurs publiques en Russie depuis la période de la perestroïka, lorsque les acteurs russes ont été socialisés à la réalité des guerre…
The Corrupted “Wheel of Life”: An Essay on Ouroboroses
The focus of this article is a symbolic image often found in world mythology – a giant snake or a dragon biting its own tail. This image is usually denoted by the Greek word “ouroboros” (οὐροβόρος), which means literally “eating its own tail.” This essay is devoted to an interpretation of this symbol, which the author sees as leading to the much broader topic of human unfreedom and the forms that this unfreedom takes. The first section deals with…
Is the Concept of the Post-Secular Justified? On the 15th Anniversary of J. Habermas’ Istanbul Report “Against Military Atheism”
On April 22, 2023, the editorial board of the journal “St. Tikhon’s University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies” with the participation of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of St. Tikhon’s University, within the framework of the annual conference “Research in Religion: Past, Present, Future”, a round table dedicated to the problems associated with the concept of “post-secular”. The presentations and the subsequent …
The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars
p emThe Moralist International/em analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the cl…
Neuropsychoanalysis and Its Conceptual Problems
This article is devoted to a critical analysis of neuropsychoanalysis, an interdisciplinary field that emerged at the end of the 20th century and set itself the task of combining neuroscience with the psychoanalytic approach. The author draws attention to the conceptual gaps of this ambitious undertaking. The main gap is argued to be the insufficient attention paid to the psychophysical problem (or mind-body problem), which ends up overlooking th…
Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the “conservative turn” in Russia under Putin. Its fifteen chapters, written by renowned specialists in the field, provide a focused examination of what Russian conservatism is and how it works. The book features in-depth discussions of the historical dimensions of conservatism, the contemporary international context, the theoretical conceptualization of conservatism, and empirical case studies. Amo…
From Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ to Matilda: Orthodox believers, critique, and religious freedom in Russia
This article analyses the configurations of belief, critique, and religious freedom in Russia since the performance of the Russian group Pussy Riot in 2012. The ‘punk prayer’ and its legal and political aftermath are interpreted as an incidence of the contestation of the boundary between the secular and the religious in the Russian legal and social sphere. The authors show that the outcome of this contestation has had a decisive impact on the way…
The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today's moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin's recep…
Perverse conservatism: A Lacanian interpretation of Russia’s turn to traditional values
Jacques Lacan and the Theory of the Religious Subject
Jacques Lacan’s theory of the subject is put forward in order to correct what the author calls “the naïve theory of the subject,” which sociologists of religion tend to utilize by default in numerous quantitative sociological studies based on mass surveys and oriented towards obtaining exact, scientific, positivistic knowledge. This article applies Lacan’s three registers—Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real—to the religious sphere and demonstrates thei…
The „Pussy riot“ case and the post-secular hybrids
The article is devoted to the analysis of the ?Pussy riot? case and the peculiarities of Russian postsecularism. Special emphasis is placed on the phenomenon of post-secular hybrids, i.e. the overcoming of the situation of social differentiation between religion and other social subsystems (one of the main distinctive features of secularization). It is claimed that the materials of the trial against ?Pussy riot? make evident the appearance in Rus…
The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today's moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin's recep…
From Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ to Matilda: Orthodox believers, critique, and religious freedom in Russia
This article analyses the configurations of belief, critique, and religious freedom in Russia since the performance of the Russian group Pussy Riot in 2012. The ‘punk prayer’ and its legal and political aftermath are interpreted as an incidence of the contestation of the boundary between the secular and the religious in the Russian legal and social sphere. The authors show that the outcome of this contestation has had a decisive impact on the way…
The decline of religion or its social significance? An unresolved issue in the secularization debate
In the sociological debate on secularization two different approaches to its interpretation have been woven together: the loss of religion's social significance and the decline of (individual) religiosity. The author proposes to call them secularization (1) and secularization (2). In the heyday of the secularization theory, these interpretations were perceived as complementary and mutually reinforcing. However, as the integrated secularization mo…
The „Pussy riot“ case and the post-secular hybrids
The article is devoted to the analysis of the ?Pussy riot? case and the peculiarities of Russian postsecularism. Special emphasis is placed on the phenomenon of post-secular hybrids, i.e. the overcoming of the situation of social differentiation between religion and other social subsystems (one of the main distinctive features of secularization). It is claimed that the materials of the trial against ?Pussy riot? make evident the appearance in Rus…
Jacques Lacan and the Theory of the Religious Subject
Jacques Lacan’s theory of the subject is put forward in order to correct what the author calls “the naïve theory of the subject,” which sociologists of religion tend to utilize by default in numerous quantitative sociological studies based on mass surveys and oriented towards obtaining exact, scientific, positivistic knowledge. This article applies Lacan’s three registers—Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real—to the religious sphere and demonstrates thei…
Perverse conservatism: A Lacanian interpretation of Russia’s turn to traditional values
The legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the transnational alliances of moral conservatives
This article examines the legacy of Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968), a Harvard sociologist from the Russian emigration. The authors scrutinise Sorokin as one of the nodal points for today's moral conservatism. As a scholar, Sorokin has been relegated to the margins of his discipline, but his legacy as a public intellectual has persisted in the United States and has soared in Russia over the last three decades. This article examines Sorokin's recep…
Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the “conservative turn” in Russia under Putin. Its fifteen chapters, written by renowned specialists in the field, provide a focused examination of what Russian conservatism is and how it works. The book features in-depth discussions of the historical dimensions of conservatism, the contemporary international context, the theoretical conceptualization of conservatism, and empirical case studies. Amo…
From Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ to Matilda: Orthodox believers, critique, and religious freedom in Russia
This article analyses the configurations of belief, critique, and religious freedom in Russia since the performance of the Russian group Pussy Riot in 2012. The ‘punk prayer’ and its legal and political aftermath are interpreted as an incidence of the contestation of the boundary between the secular and the religious in the Russian legal and social sphere. The authors show that the outcome of this contestation has had a decisive impact on the way…
Neuropsychoanalysis and Its Conceptual Problems
This article is devoted to a critical analysis of neuropsychoanalysis, an interdisciplinary field that emerged at the end of the 20th century and set itself the task of combining neuroscience with the psychoanalytic approach. The author draws attention to the conceptual gaps of this ambitious undertaking. The main gap is argued to be the insufficient attention paid to the psychophysical problem (or mind-body problem), which ends up overlooking th…
The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars
p emThe Moralist International/em analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the cl…
Is the Concept of the Post-Secular Justified? On the 15th Anniversary of J. Habermas’ Istanbul Report “Against Military Atheism”
On April 22, 2023, the editorial board of the journal “St. Tikhon’s University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies” with the participation of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of St. Tikhon’s University, within the framework of the annual conference “Research in Religion: Past, Present, Future”, a round table dedicated to the problems associated with the concept of “post-secular”. The presentations and the subsequent …
La religion et les valeurs traditionnelles: La Russie dans les guerres culturelles transnationales
Dans cet article, nous établissons que le discours russe sur les valeurs traditionnelles doit une grande partie de son contenu et de sa formulation stratégique aux guerres culturelles mondiales. En remontant beaucoup plus loin que les récentes élaborations du Kremlin, nous examinons les origines des débats sur les valeurs publiques en Russie depuis la période de la perestroïka, lorsque les acteurs russes ont été socialisés à la réalité des guerre…
The Corrupted “Wheel of Life”: An Essay on Ouroboroses
The focus of this article is a symbolic image often found in world mythology – a giant snake or a dragon biting its own tail. This image is usually denoted by the Greek word “ouroboros” (οὐροβόρος), which means literally “eating its own tail.” This essay is devoted to an interpretation of this symbol, which the author sees as leading to the much broader topic of human unfreedom and the forms that this unfreedom takes. The first section deals with…
The Second Stage of the “Religious Revival” in Russia: How to Evaluate It from the Perspective of the Secularization Debate
This article focuses on the religious processes in Russia over the last fifteen years. The author has two objectives: on the one hand, to describe processes that can be called the second stage of the “religious revival” in contemporary Russia, and on the other hand, to place them within the context of theoretical discussions on secularization/desecularization. To achieve this goal, this article first examines the question of what secularization a…
The decline of religion or its social significance? An unresolved issue in the secularization debate
In the sociological debate on secularization two different approaches to its interpretation have been woven together: the loss of religion's social significance and the decline of (individual) religiosity. The author proposes to call them secularization (1) and secularization (2). In the heyday of the secularization theory, these interpretations were perceived as complementary and mutually reinforcing. However, as the integrated secularization mo…
Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 works) · Secularization (4 works) · Social science (4 works)