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  1. 1. The Katechon and Moscow as Third Rome : Visual analysis of Russia's religious soft power in Greece

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Laura Pennisi; [2021]
    Keywords : Russia; Greece; ROC; soft power; religion; Orthodox businessmen; multimodality; visual grammar;

    Abstract : The symphonic relationship between the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), a mission conceived as entrusted by God to coordinate their contributions to the society, provides the Russian state with a moral framework and the ROC with the possibility to confirm her spiritual role for the establishment of a Russian Orthodox world. This vision of a new Russian world helps the ROC expand her canonical borders to amend for the fragmentation of the pastoral community after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. READ MORE