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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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[2020]
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The journal of CESNUR
Année: 2020, Volume: 4, Numéro: 6, Pages: 3-10 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Russie
/ État
/ Unité nationale
/ Témoins de Jéhovah
/ Théorie du bouc émissaire
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux KBK Europe de l'Est ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2020.4.6.1 |