Resumen de Religione civile e ortodossia politica: la Chiesa russa e la guerra in Ucraina
The war in Ukraine that began in February 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and escalated in February 2022 to the extent unseen in Europe since the World War II, cannot be adequately comprehended without taking into consideration its religious dimension. To better understand political developments in Russia during last decade, which culminated in the war against Ukraine, one can be helped by some concepts elaborated upon in the sociology of religion. One of them is ‘civil religion’, understood as a ‘myth’ that forms the self-awareness of a nation. It can be found in many nations, including Russian. This paper, drawing on arguments from contemporary sociologists of religion, attempts at a case study of the Russian civil religion, which was forged through the symphonic collaboration between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, specifically between Vladimir Putin and the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill (Gundjaev)
