Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2019, no. 15

THE CATECHON AS A CATEGORY OF ORTHODOX CONSCIOUSNESS: OUTLINES OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL ESCHATOLOGY: A Review of VICTOR SHNIRELMAN, KOLENO DANOVO: ESKHATOLOGIYA I ANTISEMITIZM V SOVREMENNOY ROSSII [THE TRIBE OF DAN: ESCHATOLOGY AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN MODERN RUSSIA]. Moscow: St Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute Press, 2017, XIV+617 pp.

Sergei Shtyrkov
European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences
4 Makarova Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
shtyr()eu.spb.ru

Abstract: The new book by Victor Shnirelman is a very important contribution to the studies of current Russian political eschatology. The author proposes to discuss several very troublesome issues of the theory and methodology of researching discursive practices of Orthodox political radicals. The book should be regarded as an invitation to further analysis of this social field using new methods and new sources.

Keywords: political eschatology, religious nationalism, Russian orthodoxy, anti-Semitism, Antichrist.

To cite: Shtyrkov S., ‘The Catechon as a Category of Orthodox Consciousness: Outlines of Russian Political Eschatology: A Review of Victor Shnirelman, Koleno Danovo: eskhatologiya i antisemitizm v sovremennoy Rossii [The Tribe of Dan: Eschatology and Anti-Semitism in Modern Russia]. Moscow: St Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute Press, 2017, XIV+617 pp.’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2019, no. 15, pp. 221–237.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8927-2019-15-15-221-237

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/eng015/shtyrkov.pdf