Ab Imperio
Publication date:
2022-01-01
Pages:
91 -
116
Publisher:
Redaktsiya Zhurnala Ab Imperio
Author:
Berezhnaya, Liliya
Paert, Irina ; Gibson, Catherine
Keywords:
Arts & Humanities, History, EMPIRE, ORTHODOXY, FAITH, STATE
Abstract:
This is the introduction to the thematic forum "Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference," which includes five articles that address the problem of emerging collective identity through the entanglement of complementing and conflicting forms of groupness: religious, political, and ethnic. The introductory essay conceptually frames these studies in terms of national indifference and confessional ambiguity, underscoring the role of religious collective identities in forging other forms of groupness–ethnocultural and political.