A Conspiracy of Silence: Interfaces of the Sacred and the Political in the Discursive Practices of Modern Russia
Journal: Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review
Year: 2018

Who in modern Russia speaks about the what, when, and how of the mutual implications of the sacred and the political? As the article’s primary focus, it is shown that almost no-one produces coherent, well-articulated narratives, with the exception of some representatives of higher state authorities (however, not the state as such), the anti-clerical intelligentsia (who have neither political representation nor political influence), and the Islamic community (which concentrates predominantly on t