Political religion and crises of legitimacy

[Athanasiy]

Very interesting text from the American resource called “The Immanent Frame” it’s a name of Charles Taylor’s famous concept, and is overseen by Georgetown University (with Columbia University). This is about the rapid evolution of political religion into the civil one in Russia

blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2017/07/19/political-religion-and-crises-of-legitimacy/

 

[commenter5]

Very interesting text from the American resource called “The Immanent Frame” it’s a name of Charles Taylor’s famous concept, and is overseen by Georgetown University (with Columbia University). This is about the rapid evolution of political religion into the civil one in Russia

blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2017/07/19/political-religion-and-crises-of-legitimacy/

If the Russians are going to persecute and ban Jehovah’s Witnesses (I agree that they are heretical, but this is no business of the governments), them the EU should ban Russian Orthodoxy as retribution and brand them as “agents of the Russian state and monarchist extremists.”

 

[Athanasiy]

Theologian Cyril Hovorun, adds very interesting note:
“If the American political religion happens, it would be Schmittean. It could address the following points, which were important for Carl Schmitt: sovereignty, need for enemies to sustain this sovereignty, and the state of emergence as a vehicle to overcome the restrictions of law. Schmitt developed his “political theology” on the ill-perceived Catholicism, which in his time was entrenched in the war against “modernism”. The present administration can adopt a civil (political?) religion on the basis of ill-perceived Christianity, which in the modern America is entrenched in the culture wars.”

 

[SyroMalankara]

If the Russians are going to persecute and ban Jehovah’s Witnesses (I agree that they are heretical, but this is no business of the governments), them the EU should ban Russian Orthodoxy as retribution and brand them as “agents of the Russian state and monarchist extremists.”

A few EU nations ban or restrict Mormons, JWs, Moonies, Scientologists and other cults as subversive and dangerous

 

[Athanasiy]

as you have already noticed - it was meant - “from civil to political” and not from political to civil

 

[Athanasiy]

“Civil Religion in the Orthodox Milieu”
Cyril Hovorun on LinkedIn
linkedin.com/pulse/civil-religion-orthodox-milieu-cyril-hovorun

 

[Athanasiy]

Academia.edu
academia.edu/34473383/Cyril_Hovorun_Civil_Religion_in_the_Orthodox_Milieu._In_Political_Theologies_in_Orthodox_Christianity_Common_Challenges_and_Divergent_Positions_edited_by_Kristina_Stoeckl_Ingeborg_Gabriel_and_Aristotle_Papanikolaou_253_62_London_Continuum_2017