A World Without Islam by Fuller Graham E

Author:Fuller, Graham E. [Fuller, Graham E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316072014
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2010-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

Proudly, [the Orthodox Church] points to a 1,005-year-old tradition of faith, liturgy, music, saints and iconology. While that does not necessarily make it a state church, many within Orthodoxy see themselves as the state religion. They argue that Russia can only be Orthodox and that historically it has been a state church.

The Russian state is thus revivifying its nationalism, national traditions, and glories in particular through the magnificent cultural vehicle of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Christian themes are now restored to the once-atheist Soviet political scene; few politicians in the post-Soviet period fail to invoke the importance of religious values. Grigory Yavlinski, the head of the political movement Yabloko, commented that “lack of faith is the prologue to corruption and bureaucracy, which produce terrorism…. Economic reforms in a nation that does not believe in God are totally impossible.”

The writer Valery Ganichev, chairman of the Russian Union of Writers, proclaimed his fears that “Russia is cloning the cells of immorality that it grasped from Western culture” and called for popular demand that the government “help save the nation from depravity.” These tensions were further reinforced by the bitter so-called Uniate controversy, still ongoing, between Catholicism and Orthodoxy over who should control the Nestorian and Monophysite churches in Ukraine and Belorussia—an issue now inevitably entangled in the geopolitical struggles between Russia and the West.

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