Shvaya, А.Yu. (2021), Polical and cultural signifi cance of confl icts over the orthodox symbolization of public urban space in the context of depoliticization, Semioticheskie issledovanija. Semiotic studies, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 74–81, DOI: http: ...

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Abstract

This article presents the results of a study of two of the most striking confl icts: the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church and the construction of the Church of St. Catherine in Yekaterinburg. In these clashes over attempts to change or redefi ne the public urban space, a hybrid of “the religious” and “the political” is quite new for a Russian researcher. So, despite the presence of Orthodox public actions, these confl icts cannot be fully called religious, while the peripheral nature of the domestic political agenda makes it diffi cult to call them political. In this regard, the study of these confl icts requires a special methodological setting (orientation). Thanks to the theory of social performance by J. Alexander, it becomes obvious that the confl ict of meanings within these confrontations gives access to the study of display of modern political culture. Guided by his methodology and using the approach to the analysis of the discourse of D. Snow and his colleagues, in the present research, carried out by the author, there have been analyzed the discourses of the two sides of the confrontation in online media publications concerning two indicated conflicts.