Orthodox Internationalism: State and Church in Modern Russia and Ethiopia

Rupprecht, Tobias

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“…The other was the quarter Abissinka, from the Russian for ‘little Abyssinia’, that celebrated the Ethiopian victory over Italy. The Russian imperial authorities had supported Menelik II against Italian colonialism (Rupprecht 2018), and the Soviet state continued this policy. There is no direct evidence to prove that the inclusion of Italian political references into urban semiotics was prompted by the presence of a local Italian community, even one of political émigrés.…”

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Re-conceiving territory in Eastern Crimea: the impact of the Italian community on Kerch's urban and rural transformation

Gomez

2021

Mod. Italy

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This article deals with the impact that Italian migrants, both individually and as a community, had on the rural and urban environment of Kerch, in Eastern Crimea (Russian Empire), during the1820s and 1920s. Occupying a strategic position in the Black Sea for Russia's geopolitics and for the whole European commercial system, this territory's transformation was activated by Russia's imperial re-visioning of the Crimea and by spontaneous foreign immigration. Within this context, the Italian community's contribution to the transformation of the local environment had an important economic impact, relevant also on a wider scale. Some of these changes would have a long-lasting effect but none of them would ever be officially recognised. The aim of this article is to shed light on these processes.

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Section: Kerch and The Italian Factormentioning

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Re-conceiving territory in Eastern Crimea: the impact of the Italian community on Kerch's urban and rural transformation

Gomez

2021

Mod. Italy

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“…Stalin initiated this policy as a means of maintaining the geopolitical advantages conferred by Russia's historic role as protector of Orthodox Christians, and it was continued by his successors. 63 A shared experience of relative economic backwardness vis-à-vis Western Europe formed the backdrop, in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, for what has been called socialist globalisation. 64 Although Eastern European countries rapidly industrialised after the Second World War, they never succeeded in overcoming this economic lag.…”

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Introduction: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Relations: Continuities and Changes from the Time of Empires to the Cold War

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Schayegh

2021

Contemporary European History

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The aim of this special issue is to study the Middle East and Eastern Europe (including south-eastern Europe) as one interwoven space and to use it as a laboratory to explore conceptual issues regarding modern (societal) transnational and (state) international history. In this introduction we wish to analyse and explain the changing relations between the various states of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, with an eye also to Russia/the Soviet Union. We will highlight two patterns: similar ethno-religious-linguistically heterogeneous populations and shared peripherality vis-à-vis Western Europe. The question of interplays and overlaps between nation-states and empires and the geographic proximity of Eastern Europe and the Middle East cut across these two patterns, constituting a broader framework. Throughout, the reader will note three generic interlocking traits. Eastern Europe and the Middle East are not internally homogeneous and fixed, nor is their relationship, which indeed is irreducibly diverse in the political as well as in the economic, social and cultural fields. This diversity is reflected in the variety of contexts and actors who appear in the articles, including statesmen, merchants, activists, journalists, thinkers, architects, and bureaucrats.We have had the privilege to build on a firm scholarly bedrock as we conceptualised this special issue, and specifically on three broad debates whose geographies interlock. First, historians of both Eastern Europe and the Middle East have been advocating for these regions to be embedded in larger trans-regional, inter-imperial and global narratives. 1 This approach overlaps with recent studies of

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“…Consider the Syrian Orthodox Church in Kerala, India (Naumescu 2019), or the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States. This is one factor that explains why Orthodox-inspired visions of a global order remain understudied (Rupprecht 2018).…”

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An Affective Atmosphere of Religiosity: Animated Places, Public Spaces, and the Politics of Attachment in Ukraine and Beyond

Wanner

2020

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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When religious institutions engage the secular emotively and publicly, they can foster an affective atmosphere of religiosity, which potentially has motivational power, even for non-believers, because it shapes the sensorium of those who circulate in public space. When individuals appeal to “places animated with prayer” for the transformative energy that resides there through ritualized practices, they reaffirm an affective atmosphere of religiosity. In Orthodox Eastern Europe and elsewhere, a confessional tradition is allied with state borders, further normativizing this affective atmosphere and giving it pronounced political implications. When an affective atmosphere of religiosity inspires practices that are intentionally designed to prompt experiences rendered meaningful in otherworldly terms, over time such performativity can create mimetic instincts that become second nature. This is an essential step to religion becoming an expedient political resource and to the emergence of religious nationalism or a confessional state.

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Orthodox Internationalism: State and Church in Modern Russia and Ethiopia

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Re-conceiving territory in Eastern Crimea: the impact of the Italian community on Kerch's urban and rural transformation

Re-conceiving territory in Eastern Crimea: the impact of the Italian community on Kerch's urban and rural transformation

Introduction: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Relations: Continuities and Changes from the Time of Empires to the Cold War

An Affective Atmosphere of Religiosity: Animated Places, Public Spaces, and the Politics of Attachment in Ukraine and Beyond

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