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Article

Spoiler or Facilitator? Radicalization of the Georgian Orthodox Church and Its Impact on Societal Resilience in Georgia

by
Bidzina Lebanidze
1,2,* and
Shota Kakabadze
3
1
Institute of Slavic Languages and Caucasus Studies, University of Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
2
School of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
3
The Georgian Institute of Politics, Tbilisi 0107, Georgia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Religions 2023, 14(2), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020272
Submission received: 31 December 2022 / Revised: 9 February 2023 / Accepted: 16 February 2023 / Published: 17 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion, Radicalization and De-radicalization Processes: A Comparative Perspective)
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This article explores the process of creeping radicalization within the Georgian Orthodox Church and its implications for building societal resilience in the country. In doing so, it aims to fill the gap in the literature on the role of dominant religious organizations in resilience building in Georgia and in the broader post-Soviet region. Our analysis ascribes a mostly negative impact to the Georgian Orthodox Church on the country’s societal resilience. We identify two possible mechanisms with which the Georgian Orthodox Church undermines societal resilience in Georgia: (1) by decreasing general trust in society and (2) by inspiring anti-Western narratives, which undermine the basis of Georgia’s national identity.
Keywords: resilience; Georgian Orthodox Church; radicalization; social trust; European integration; national identity resilience; Georgian Orthodox Church; radicalization; social trust; European integration; national identity

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Lebanidze, B.; Kakabadze, S. Spoiler or Facilitator? Radicalization of the Georgian Orthodox Church and Its Impact on Societal Resilience in Georgia. Religions 2023, 14, 272. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020272

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Lebanidze B, Kakabadze S. Spoiler or Facilitator? Radicalization of the Georgian Orthodox Church and Its Impact on Societal Resilience in Georgia. Religions. 2023; 14(2):272. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020272

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Lebanidze, Bidzina, and Shota Kakabadze. 2023. "Spoiler or Facilitator? Radicalization of the Georgian Orthodox Church and Its Impact on Societal Resilience in Georgia" Religions 14, no. 2: 272. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020272

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Lebanidze, B., & Kakabadze, S. (2023). Spoiler or Facilitator? Radicalization of the Georgian Orthodox Church and Its Impact on Societal Resilience in Georgia. Religions, 14(2), 272. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020272

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