Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 [50] (2003) 7-32
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Antisemitism has a prominent role in contemporary Russian Orthodoxy. Conservatism, inherent to the Eastern Churches, has prevented the revision of some of the Church's doctrines. Distinguishes three conflicting forces, representing three basic ideological trends, in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC): liberals, moderate conservatives, and fundamentalists. Of these, the numerous and influential fundamentalists are the main bearers of antisemitism. They view Judaism as Satanism, and the Jews as conscious opponents of God and haters of Christianity, especially in its purest, i.e. Russian, form. The extremists oppose attempts to dialogue with Jews made by the ROC leadership and the "infiltration of Jews" into the ROC hierarchy, seeing a danger in Christianized Jews. They repeat the traditional Christian accusation that Jews engage in ritual murder. The moderate ROC leadership does not repudiate the extremists' antisemitism. However, the connections between state and Church are superficial, and there is no danger that official Russia will adopt this kind of antisemitism.
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