Issue ? 28. September 2011

Russian Religious Policy: the Slavophiles' Perspective

Graduate student, Political History Department, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
E-mail: mefuselah@mail.ru

The article is devoted to the analysis of the core themes and key aspects of the religious and church policies of Russia, as well as its social politics, as determined by the authors of the Slavophile circle in 1870s. In particular, special attention is given to the apparent similarities between the ideas declared in the works by Metropolitan bishop Philaret (Drozdov), one of the main Russian spiritual and social philosophers of the previous epoch. The essence of some of the concepts concerning the church policies in Russia in terms of various social strata, as denoted by Metropolitan bishop Philaret, allows to consider his works as relative sources of the Slavophile general ideology in the later times.

Keywords

Confessional policy, Slavophiles, religion, Russia.