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- Brik, Tymofii, et al.
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Shots of Faith : The Influence of Christian Nationalism on Vaccination Behaviour in Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, and Montenegro during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2023
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Ingår i: Orthodox Christianity and the Covid-19 Pandemic. - 9781032445595
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter analyzes the results of an online survey conducted in Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia, and Montenegro in 2022. The chapter uses the convenience sampling technique to explore reasons and test the validity of the scales. We explore online practices and perceptions of online rituals to examine further whether online practices correlate with vaccination. The chapter shows that urban respondents from our samples in Ukraine and Georgia are more likely to be vaccinated than those from Serbia and Montenegro. Moreover, the idea that coronavirus can be cured by praying has a negative impact on the likelihood of vaccination. On the other hand, a positive assessment of online liturgy positively impacts the likelihood of vaccination. Finally, the chapter suggests that the frequency and depth of online communication with priests and spiritual leaders do not influence the vaccination behavior of our respondents, while some general appreciation of modern online technologies and rituals (online liturgies) positively correlate with vaccination.
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- Metreveli, Tornike, et al.
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As if the state mattered : Georgian Orthodox Church under Covid crisis
- 2023
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Ingår i: Orthodox Christianity and the Covid-19 Pandemic. - 9781032445595
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter examines the nature of the interaction between the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) and the state during the pandemic. The article shows how the church’s gradual acknowledgment of the deadly character of the virus coincided with a strict adherence to certain highly risky religious practices (such as communion from the same spoon), while the Georgian government’s stance in defense of public health was unsystematic and accommodative to the church’s pressure. Despite numerous attempts of individual clerics, especially urban and youngers priests, the official statement of the patriarchate of the GOC did not change. The church remained abstained on the vaccination front by neither officially calling the religious population to vaccinate nor rejecting the positive effects of vaccination in the mitigation of virus. Suffice it to state that the Georgian government’s vaccination campaign has been inconsistent and unsystematic with several senior state officials and top medical experts sending mixed signals to the population about vaccination.
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- Metreveli, Tornike, et al.
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Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Orthodox Christianity and the Covid-19 Pandemic. - 9781032445595
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Brik, Tymofii, et al.
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Orthodox Churches during the Pandemic in Ukraine and Georgia : Narratives and New Practices
- 2024
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Ingår i: Problems of Post-Communism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1075-8216 .- 1557-783X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While some religious institutions postponed their religious services during the pandemic, Orthodox Christian churches insisted on keeping their doors open. Why did churches challenge social distancing policies, and how did they succeed in defying state authority at any cost? We address this puzzle drawing on an analysis of official statements, media, in-depth interviews, and surveys in Georgia and Ukraine conducted in 2020 and 2021. Our data suggest that the churches’ historical role as the pillar of the nation provided the necessary motivation and leverage against the government; their success, however, varied with respect to the level of church fragmentation.
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- Goldman, Aaron James, et al.
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Borders, Boundaries, Backdrops : An Introduction to the Special Issue on Christianity and Nationalism
- 2022
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Ingår i: Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. - : Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761 .- 2003-6248. ; 98:2, s. 79-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This issue’s articles will offer views into the conditions of nation and nationalism from outside contemporary nationalism studies, or perhaps from a position that straddles the boundaries of the inside and outside of nationalism studies. We hope that they contribute in unexpected ways to focused research – sociological and beyond – on nationalism, and on nationalism’s and Christianity’s interlocking braids throughout history.
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- Merabishvili, Gela, et al.
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Spiritual geopolitics of Georgia's territorial integrity
- 2021
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Ingår i: Political Geography. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-5096 .- 0962-6298. ; 87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper represents a study of the geopolitical reasoning of the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) and its leader Patriarch Ilia II regarding the question of Georgia's territorial integrity. Does the GOC's territorial discourse complement or challenge Georgia's territorial nationalism? The empirical analysis of the geopolitical discourses of Patriarch Ilia II in the early 1990s and in the wake of the 2008 August (Russia-Georgia) War shows a complicated relationship between spiritual and secular geopolitical discourses on Georgia's territorial integrity. Ilia's spiritual geopolitics is neither dissident nor entirely complementary. The Patriarch's definition of Georgia's territorial integrity eschews the broadly accepted formulation of “Russian occupation” within Georgia and in its place, insufficient faith and religiosity within the Georgian society take a more prominent place in the explanation of the problem's origins. Ilia II defines the religion and the GOC as the unifying factor, spiritually, territorially, and politically, of the rival parties and alienated peoples and territories. The church's canonical territoriality, rather than the state's sovereign territoriality, plays the key object of concern in the Patriarch's geopolitical discourse. However, Ilia II frames this narrow institutional interest of the church as the basis for the nation's territorial unification. By advocating more narrowly for the GOC's canonical jurisdiction across the entire disputed territories, rather than actively embracing secular anti-Russian geopolitical narratives, the church simultaneously stands outside of the territorial conflict, taking a seemingly neutral position, and reinforces the territorial claim of the Georgian state. By distinguishing and problematizing the role of GOC's canonical territoriality in the question of Georgia's sovereign territoriality, the paper concludes that the GOC is a territorial power in its own right, not merely a spiritual wing of the state of Georgia.
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- Metreveli, Tornike, et al.
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Forgotten by Many and Remembered by Few’ : Religious Responses to Forced Migration in Georgia
- 2022
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Ingår i: Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. - 9789463727556 - 9789048553938 ; , s. 273-300
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter examines the institutional dimensions of religious responsesto forced migration in contemporary Georgia. It focuses on the internallydisplaced population of Georgia from the two breakaway territories ofAbkhazia and South Ossetia/Tskhinvali region to further scrutinise howmajor religious organisations respond to the signifijicant migration crises onthe level of policy and discourse. The chapter shows that despite significantorganisational capacities, internally displaced people are largely ignoredby all major religious organisations who, beyond political disagreements,also engage in various property and economic disputes.
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- Metreveli, Tornike
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Impacts of the Pandemic on the Georgian Orthodox Church
- 2022
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Ingår i: Euxeinos. - 2296-0708. ; 12:33, s. 11-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The goal of this article is to examine the nature of interaction between the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) and the state during the pandemic. The article shows how the church’s gradual acknowledgement of the deadly character of the virus coincided with a strict adherence to certain highly risky religious practices (such as communion from the same spoon), while the Georgian government’s stance in defence of public health was unsystematic and accommodative to the church’s pressure.
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