"I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE, BUT A SWORD" (MATTHEW 10:34). THE GEOPOLITICS OF SPIRITUAL SECURITIZATION: CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN THE RUSO-UCRAINIAN CONFLICT
"I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE, BUT A SWORD" (MATTHEW 10:34). THE GEOPOLITICS OF SPIRITUAL SECURITIZATION: CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN THE RUSO-UCRAINIAN CONFLICT

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of international relations have often found religion, (geo)politics and war at a crossroads. If this is not necessarily a novelty, what gained attention within the international relation and security studies literature is a major conventional conflict on European territory between two states belonging to the same religious denomination: Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The current study seeks to identify, describe and explain the narratives of spiritual securitization in the discourse of political and religious leaders and the discourse of Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christian believers, towards the threat of spiritual and dogmatic values, but also of religious communities in the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine. In this regard, the research uses as data collection method the selection of documents and narrative analysis to interpret the data. The results highlighted the presence of several types of spiritual securitization processes, specific for the analyzed religious communities.

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