Religious factor in world politics: the example of Orthodoxy

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleРелигиозный фактор в мировой политике: на примере православия
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Culture and national identities
6. Publication date 2005
7. lemma work Митрофанова Анастасия [Author]. Religious factor in world politics: the example of Orthodoxy
8. lemma manifestations Религиозный фактор в мировой политике: на примере православия : Religious factor in world politics: the example of Orthodoxy
9. Keywords politics
10. Citations
    1. http://www.dissercat.com/content/religioznyi-faktor-v-mirovoi-politike-na-primere-pravoslaviya
11. Lemma body

    1. Due to the author's opinion, politicization of religion does not occur in traditional societies, but rather in societies that have achieved a high degree of modernization, which, however, did not lead to the expected prosperity. The failure of modernization is manifested in a number of crises, as a result of which a significant part of the population is alienated from the socio-political institutions of the society. Religious-political organizations help people overcome the effects of crises with the help of alternative social institutions (schools, clinics, courses, etc.).

       The initiator of religious-political movements are not religious professionals (“clergy” in the broad sense), but religious-oriented intelligentsia (“new intellectuals”). Its representatives often do not possess solid knowledge of theology or personal insight and "enlightenment" is of great importance to them.