Whose Presence, Whose Absences? Decolonising Russian National Culture and History
Observations Through the Prism of Religious Contact
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13099756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Schmoller (0000-0001-7818-6018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Knut Martin Stünkel (0000-0002-3182-2483) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Entangled Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2363-6696 • E-ISSN: 2363-6696 |
| Publisher | CERES / KHK Bochum (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.46586/er.13.2022.10535 |
| OpenAlex | W4366988153 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In the introduction to this special issue, the editors are concerned with how the Russian state defines its national culture and history mainly with reference to Slavic civilisation, Orthodox Christianity and imperial glory. This post-Soviet discourse of nation-building may be understood as an attempt to cope with a sense of loss in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. That discourse also affects how nationalist-minded observers interpret space as naturally Russian and as part of the empire of the past (or the present). Regrettably, little consideration is being paid to Russia’s ethnic and religious minority cultures, which hardly seem to contribute to Russian history and culture and sometimes do not even feature in representations thereof. Critically engaging with the ideas of presence and absence—the presence of one culture or tradition to the detriment of others—, the editors suggest, can potentially help to decolonise accounts and illustrations of Russian culture and heritage. In the best case, the outcome of such an exercise would be a more adequate involvement of minority representatives in the process of negotiating Russian national culture
Civilization · Empire · Glory · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Russian culture · Sociology · Ukrainian · Western culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
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Early Twenty-First-Century Literary Images from the Margins of the Russian (Orthodox) World
The Concept of Holy Rus’ in Russian Literary and Cultural Tradition
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” in (Post-)Colonial Russia
A Spiritual Perestroika
Centrifugal Forces
Guarding the Motherland’s Frontiers
Organization and work of missionaries in the Middle‐Volga in the second half of the nineteenth century
Burden of the Third Rome
The captive and the gift
From “Compatriots” to “Aliens”
A Place of One’s Own
Religious contacts in past and present times
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