Whose Presence, Whose Absences? Decolonising Russian National Culture and History: Observations Through the Prism of Religious Contact
Abstract: In the introduction to this special issue, the editors are concerned with how the Russian state defines its national culture and history mainly with reference to Slavic civilisation, Orthodox Christianity and imperial glory. This post-Soviet discourse of nation-building may be understood as an attempt to cope with a sense of loss in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. That discourse also affects how nationalist-minded observers interpret space as naturally Russian and as part of the empire of the past (or the present). Regrettably, little consideration is being paid to Russia’s ethnic and religious minority cultures, which hardly seem to contribute to Russian history and culture and sometimes do not even feature in representations thereof. Critically engaging with the ideas of presence and absence—the presence of one culture or tradition to the detriment of others—, the editors suggest, can potentially help to decolonise accounts and illustrations of Russian culture and herita.... https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/10535
- Location
-
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Extent
-
Online-Ressource
- Language
-
Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
-
Whose Presence, Whose Absences? Decolonising Russian National Culture and History: Observations Through the Prism of Religious Contact ; volume:13 ; number:8 ; year:2022
Entangled Religions ; 13, Heft 8 (2022)
- Creator
- DOI
-
10.46586/er.13.2022.10535
- URN
-
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023053118541766945161
- Rights
-
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
- 14.08.2025, 10:48 AM CEST
Data provider
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.
Associated
Other Objects (12)
Whose voice? Whose choice? Whose power?
Incest : whose reality, whose theory
Whose image and whose mind
Whose Past, Whose History, Whose Tradition? : Indigenizing Women's Studies in India
Whose knowledge?
Whose justice?
Whose Amber?
Whose knowledge?
Whose Consent?
Whose Enlightenment?
China and Africa: whose challenge and whose opportunity?
Whose science? Whose knowledge? : Thinking from women's lives
Whose voice? Whose choice? Whose power?
Incest : whose reality, whose theory
Whose image and whose mind
Whose Past, Whose History, Whose Tradition? : Indigenizing Women's Studies in India
Whose knowledge?
Whose justice?
Whose Amber?
Whose knowledge?
Whose Consent?
Whose Enlightenment?
China and Africa: whose challenge and whose opportunity?
Whose science? Whose knowledge? : Thinking from women's lives
Whose voice? Whose choice? Whose power?
Incest : whose reality, whose theory
Whose image and whose mind
Whose Past, Whose History, Whose Tradition? : Indigenizing Women's Studies in India
Whose knowledge?
Whose justice?
Whose Amber?
Whose knowledge?
Whose Consent?
Whose Enlightenment?
China and Africa: whose challenge and whose opportunity?