State spirituality

"The relationship between state security, the Russian security services and the discourse of normative spiritualism has a long history. In her work on the sta-tus and historical development of the notion of state security and its agents in Russia and in the Soviet Union, Julie Fedor (2011, 4) even introduces the notion of “spiritual security” as an important aspect of the situation Soviet Union commonly described as chekism, referring to the clear and strong control ex-erted by the secret police (the Cheka) over all spheres of society. Moreover, this concept was used by Patriarch Alexii II in his speech at the consecration of an Orthodox Church on the territory of the Lubianka headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) in 2002."Natalija Majsova
Rhizomata
State; Spirituality; Civic religion; State cult; Imperial cult
Cosmism; Noocosmology
Statecraft; Theology