Stošić, Sanja (2022) Orthodoxy in the Age of Dechristianization: Challanges and Perspectives. In: Международная научная конференция г. Новозыбков, Брянская область, 22 октября 2022 г., 22 октября 2022 г., Новозыбков.

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Abstract

In this paper I engage with the socio-political implications on Orthodoxy present in the age of dechristianization, which implicitly endorse a concept of Neoliberalism’s New World Order. Analyzing the nature of neoliberal era and its relation to global fascism, I find that Orthodoxy today must be engaged with historical and social affairs. Striving to impose legal-constitutional relations between Orthodox churches and states according to a putative Western model are surely undemocratic, and the equation of religious and national affiliation has caused politization of religion, inner secularization and, thus, emersion of a Christianity deprived of one’s own cultural heritage and the rise of new ethno-religious movements. Hence, political nationalism ignited many terrorist wars oriented to enhance local identities and artificial nation-states of their own, supported on transnational scale by the Catholic Corporatist model. Based on the study of the Ukrainian and Kosovo-Serbia crises, I offer some insights that might assist researchers while facing some challenges to modern Orthodox theology.

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