Ideological Groups within the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and Ukraine after 2012: A Comparative Study of their Influence on the Institutions of Church Governance and its Relationship with the State

本申请对活跃在俄罗斯和乌克兰的俄罗斯东正教会（ROC）中最突出的意识形态团体的现状和发展进行比较研究。该项目将考察两个对立的团体：持君主制和新帝国主义观点的俄罗斯民族主义者，以及支持给予乌克兰东正教（UOC）完全的教会独立（即自治）的亲乌克兰团体。乌克兰东正教目前仍是中华民国的一部分。本研究将探讨这些团体的形成、动员和现状，以及他们的神学、思想和政治立场。特别是，我希望了解这些团体在中华民国和UOC行政和教育机构中的作用。我还将分析这些团体在政教关系体系中促进各自神学和政治立场的成功程度。这项研究将包括对这些群体参与者的口头访谈，以及对官方来源和社交网络上发表的材料的分析。我还将利用2015年至2017年在乌克兰实地工作期间进行的采访。我还将利用以下来源：1995-2015年间ROC先前研究的个人电子数据库；不莱梅大学东欧研究中心提供的关于东正教的期刊汇编；这些团体的参与者在2000年代和2010年代发表的材料——主要是在教会出版物中，否则公共图书馆的藏书中就找不到。我相信本研究将为俄乌冲突的发展提供一个重要的视角。它将告知对中华民国和中华民国奥委会的神学和社会政治发展的理解，不仅在当前的冲突中，而且在中期的未来。此外，检查这些团体的意识形态立场将有助于解释中华民国内部的竞争欲望，一方面，与世界大同运动和普世东正教的融合，另一方面，从这些过程中获得自治，并支持建立一个基于反大同原则的东正教保守“国际”。

This application proposes a comparative study of the current state and development of the most prominent ideological groups in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) active in Russia and Ukraine today. The project will examine two opposing groups: Russian nationalists with monarchical and neo-imperialist views, and pro-Ukrainian groups who support granting full canonical independence, known as autocephaly, to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which currently remains part of the ROC. This research will explore the formation, mobilization, and current status of these groups, as well as their theological, ideological, and political positions. In particular, I hope to understand the role of these groups in the ROC and UOC administrative and educational apparatus. I will also analyze the extent of these groups’ success in promoting their respective theological and political positions in the system of relations between church and state. This research will consist of oral interviews with participants of these groups, and analysis of published materials from both official sources and social networks. I will also make use of interviews conducted during my previous fieldwork in Ukraine between 2015 and 2017. I will also draw on the following sources: a personal electronic database of previous studies of the ROC between 1995-2015; a collection of periodicals on the Orthodox Church, available at the University of Bremen’s Research Centre for East European Studies; materials published by participants of the groups in question in the 2000s and 2010s—mainly in church publications otherwise unavailable in public library collections. I believe this research study will provide an important perspective on the developing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It will inform understandings of the theological and socio-political development of the ROC and the UOC, not only in this current conflict, but also in the medium-term future. Moreover, an examination of these groups’ ideological positions will help explain competing desires within the ROC, on one hand, for integration with the world ecumenical movement and universal Orthodoxy, and on the other, for autonomy from these processes, and support for the creation of an Orthodox conservative "International" based on anti-ecumenical principles.