An Introduction: Scapegoating the Jehovah’s Witnesses to Maintain the Cohesion of National Communities
This and the next issue of The Journal of CESNURpresent papers from the September 3, 2020 seminar “Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Opponents: Russia, the West, and Beyond,” which should have been held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 3, 2020, but was moved online because...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2020]
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The journal of CESNUR
Jahr: 2020, Band: 4, Heft: 6, Seiten: 3-10 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Russland
/ Staat
/ Nationale Einheit
/ Zeugen Jehovas
/ Sündenbocktheorie
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen KBK Osteuropa ZC Politik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Opposition to Jehovah’s Witnesses
B Scapegoat Theory B Jehovah’s Witnesses B Spiritual Security in Russia B Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This and the next issue of The Journal of CESNURpresent papers from the September 3, 2020 seminar “Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Opponents: Russia, the West, and Beyond,” which should have been held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 3, 2020, but was moved online because of the COVID-19 epidemic. Several papers focus on the reasons for the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Putin’s Russia. This introduction argues that René Girard’s theory of the scapegoat offers an additional explanation. In the present Russian context, the Jehovah’s Witnesses serve as the perfect scapegoat in Girardian sense. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2020.4.6.1 |