Review article
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND GLOBALISATION
Zoran Milošević
; Faculty of Philosophy - Serbian Sarajevo
Abstract
In this article the author studies the attitude of Russian
Orthodox Church towards globalisation processes. Analysing the
relation of Orthodoxy to globalisation, the author finds out that
there is a strong resistance to this social process, even to the idea
of deleting the autochthonous nations, their cultures and traditional
values. The leaders of the critical reflection of globalisation are the
Russian Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church. Other
Orthodox Churches, particularly those in the Balkans – Serbian,
Bulgarian, Rumanian, which could be accompanied by some others
– more or less keep silent on this issue, because they have already
come under the influence and control of globalists. An alternative to
globalisation has been conceptually worked out and it can be seen
in trying to unite the Orthodox nations and states into one state,
first of all to unite Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Caucasian
peoples, and then the Balkan Orthodox Christians. Although the idea
of the “Eastern Union” has been pretty old, its operationalisation has
had a weak basis. All comes to an end on a declarative level. The
mentioned idea among the Balkan Orthodox Christians, especially
among the Serbs, has some additional difficulties, because a mere
mention of it is understood as a heresy which meets with a general
condemnation of media that are under the globalists’ control.
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Hrčak ID:
25015
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Publication date:
21.6.2005.
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