@incollection{2023:kalenychenko:ukraines,
title = {Ukraine''s Far-Right Movements and Their Connections to the Religious World},
year = {2023},
note = {The issue of the relationship between right-wing movements and
religious communities is extremely interesting and important today,
particularly in the Ukrainian context. In Ukraine, the fight for
national liberation against Russia has been escalated by the
full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, which has led to the active
transformation of the religious field, together with the strengthening
of patriotic and sometimes nationalistic discourses. Instrumental
pious nationalism as a theoretical framework, deserves special
attention because it is exactly this type of connection between
religion and nationalism that is most often employed in the situation
of the post-Soviet space, including Ukraine (Rieffer herself regards
this type as inherent in the religious situation of post-Soviet
Russia). The peculiarity of instrumental pious nationalism is that
religion is not a major category but rather an additional element for
community unification; thus, it becomes a useful resource for national
leaders to influence society and gain the trust of their electorates.
Moreover, within this type, religion serves as a legitimization
resource for new state institutions and for maintaining the authority
of the state and leaders in times of crisis.},
booktitle = {The Christian Right in Europe},
pages = {351--364},
edition = {1},
author = {Kalenychenko, Tetiana and Smytsnyuk, Pavlo},
publisher = {transcript},
address = {Bielefeld},
series = {Edition Politik},
volume = {129}
}