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Marianna Napolitano

Fixed-term Assistant Professor working in a different University

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Research

Keywords: church-state relations in Russia churches and religion in Ukraine history of Russia history of Ukraine liturgical reform of Patriarch Nikon slavic traslation of the Symbol of Faith interreligious relations in Russia and in Ukraine

  • Russian Orthodox Church -Kremlin's interplay in the post-Soviet period, in particular with regard to the external policy. The topic is analysed from an historical, political and religious perspective. 
  • history of churches in Ukraine, of the relationship between political independence and autocephaly.
  • conspiracy theories in the Russian Federation and their impact on the Russian Orthodox Church's policy at the European Union.
  • the Russian Orthodox Church and inter-religious dialogue with focus on traditional religions of the Russian Federation and religions of the former Soviet space.
  • Orthodoxy and digital, with a focus on the relationship between de-secularization, post-secularism  and the Russian Orthodox Church's use of media and new media. 

  • the liturgical reform of Patriarch Nikon and in particular analysis of the revisions made to the Symbol of Faith.
  • the semantic analysis of Church Slavonic terms and the case study of the Slavic translation of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith