Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
First page number:
1
Last page number:
72
Abstract
Toward the end of the twentieth century Russian culture found itself at a crossroads which cannot be ascribed to any political election but which rather presupposed a radical change in its religious and social orientation. Two somewhat opposing theses will be developed in this article. First I will discuss the processes of secularization in Russian culture and the necessity of a third, neutral zone between the "sacred" and the "profane." Next, the dangers of social neutralization in culture and the necessity of retaining elements of the dual model along with the introduction of intermediate elements will be presented. We will hope that these theses are but partly contradictory; that is, when combined they will not cancel each other out, but will rather produce a "ternary" model of a cultural symbiosis between the extreme and the median, despite their apparent incongruity.
Keywords
Religion and culture; Religious awakening; Russia (Federation); Social change; Spiritual life
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Asian History | Cultural History | European History | History | History of Religion | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures | Politics and Social Change | Religion | Slavic Languages and Societies | Social History
Language
English
Repository Citation
Epstein, M.
(2012).
Russian Spirituality and the Theology of Negation. In Dmitri N. Shalin,
1-72.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/russian_culture/13
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