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of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Mitrofanova A.V. The impact of Covid-19 on orthodox groups and believers in Russia. In: Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic. Nina Käsehage (ed.) Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021. P. 47-80.



Mitrofanova A.V. The impact of Covid-19 on orthodox groups and believers in Russia. In: Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic. Nina Käsehage (ed.) Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021. P. 47-80.
ISBN 978-3-8394-5485-5
DOI 10.14361/9783839454855-003

Posted on site: 05.04.21

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Abstract

This chapter intends to discover how Orthodox groups and believers of different ideological orientations in Russia reacted to the 2020 world health crisis. Its focus is on the groups and individual believers that can be designated as ‘fundamentalists’. The author first provides analysis of the official ecclesiastical reaction to the pandemic, demonstrating how some contradictory messages from above made significant number of believers to sympathize with so called “corona-dissidents” in the Church. These dissidents included not only fundamentalists, but also moderate traditionalists, liberals, or people otherwise sharing the mainstream ecclesiastical discourse. The author concludes that fundamentalists mostly articulated themes common for all “dissidents”, although being more open in their criticism of the mainstream reactions, but that from this criticism they conclude that both mundane and ecclesiastical leaders have discredited themselves and need to be replaced.

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