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Religeopolitics in action: analysing religion-territoriality nexus on the basis of Holy Rus’, Serbian World, Ulster, and Megali Idea discourses
(Tartu Ülikool, 2026) Zolotarjov, Roman; Kilp, Alar, juhendaja; Tartu Ülikool. Sotsiaalteaduste valdkond; Tartu Ülikool. Johan Skytte poliitikauuringute instituut
In this MA thesis, a comparative analysis of religeopolitical discourses is conducted on the basis of four empirical cases: Holy Rus’, Serbian World, Ulster and Megali Idea. The central concept used throughout this thesis is religeopolitics – i.e., particular spatial imaginations based on religious discourse. The major goal of this thesis is twofold: on the one hand, it is the formulation of a new theory of religeopolitics, while on the other hand it is an intellectual contribution to better understanding the role of religion in the process of place-making and the transformation of geographical space into metaphysical notions of religious communities of belonging. This topic is important for two reasons. First of all, four selected empirical cases have been historically related with some form of intra-state conflict and violence, which specifies the societal importance of the topic. Second of all, the contribution of this thesis to the academic debate is a valuable intellectual enterprise. Methodologically, this thesis is grounded in the post-positivist research paradigm and it uses a qualitative approach to social analysis. In this case, discourse analysis is conducted in the form of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Norman Fairclough. Selected corpora of texts are analysed through the prism of the pre-defined theoretical framework. Particular semantic elements (including the “sacred dimensions of nationalism” of Anthony David Smith and linguistic aspects of proximization of Piotr Cap) are identified and further analysed from a comparative perspective. The results suggest that religion plays a crucial role in religeopolitics: not only is it a marker of social identity, but also the point of reference of a specific value-system in relation to which the identity of the Self is constructed. Religeopolitical discourses represent specific communities of belonging identified through their juxtaposition to the threatening Other that is portrayed as near, imminent and dangerous. The result of this is the call to action, chief among them is the physical extermination of the enemy. Religion also adds an essentialist, messianic dimension to it: religeopolitical communities are not only imagined communities of belonging, their function is the restraining of Evil and prevention of the Apocalypse.