The results of the year. Hybrid religiosity

The installation of Putin's secularism is a shock pace. The state invades more and more new areas, reformatting spiritual life for its tasks. The religious associations that are difficult to include with the help of “quiet requests”, which include the communities of Pentecostals, witnesses of Jehovah, Krishnas, alternative Orthodoxy, are subjected to high pressure. Inside the dominant denomination, there are serious shifts towards the transformation of the ROC MP into a state -of -the -point of the state, which is convenient from the point of view of manipulation.

The church's perepices occurred against the backdrop of the arrival of the “Lubyansky episcopate” in the church top-menovation. Managers focused on the ideology of the "confessor of Putin" Tikhon (Shevkunov), who became a bishop at the end of 2015.

Patriarch Kirill gives one position after another and becomes a hostage to the situation. We can say that the Holy turns into a simulacrum, straightens inside himself with the person as he was recently.

The patriarch began to hand over his people. As evidenced, first of all, the removal of the head of the synodal department on the relationship between the Church and the Society of Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin from the post of head of the Church and the Company. The liberal public took this personnel decision on a “cheers”. Indeed, the degree of scandalous and provocativeness of the statements of an honest father surprised everyone. But at the same time, everyone understood that it was a game, an empty chatter. In reality, about. Vsevolod supported living forces within the church fence. Thanks to him for one.

But the "liberal" Andrei Kuraev wet them to order. Today, Kuraev continues to wet the patriarch, does everything possible for the speedy arrival of Lubyansk comrades to power. While the disgraced Chaplin makes the “Covering” special operation - he excels, as he can, the first hierarch, tries to extend the term of his patriarchate.

The former hippy Chaplin was replaced by a glamorous Legoyd, a typical nomenclature worker, which, by the way, similar to the figures of the Komsomol Central Committee. There will be no shocking now, that's for sure. The nuts will be twisted under the right words about morality and spirituality.

You can’t pass by another “change” of Patriarch Kirill - the resignation of the responsible editor of the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate” Sergei Chapnin after his frank report in the center of Carnegie. In his speech, Chapnin spoke, in particular, about the formation of a new hybrid religiosity. About the creation of civil religion, which incorporated both Orthodox traditions, and nostalgia for the Soviet past, and the dream of a strong empire. The journalist criticized the Orthodox members of the Izborsk club for their silence after the provocative statements of Alexander Prokhanov.

Prokhanov, as you know, acts with the apology Stalin. He ordered a large “icon”, on which the Generalissimo in a white tunic is placed in the very center. The Belgorod and Saratov Metropolitan made with hard statements about the performance of prayers to such an “icon”. But the Orthodox comrades of Prokhanov on the Izborsky club Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) and Natalya Narochnitskaya scored water in the mouth.

In 2015, the color of time changed. The polyphony of the 1990s went into the irrevocable "yesterday." Today in the church only officials speak, the rest is ordered to be silent. Their opinion is not taken into account in the dispute of the church and civil society. And the more stiffer the clerics and backwards act, the greater the weight gain the voices of those who advance atheism of a new model into public consciousness. Insolent and unceremonious, if you look at the face of the leader of this atheism Alexander Nevzorov.

In 2015, the showdown between the ROC MP and culture continued. Especially acute polemic unfolded around the possible transfer of the Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. A large public resonance was prohibited by the ban on the opera Tangeyer in Novosibirsk and the Enteo Hooligan trick in the arena. Orthodox activists showed not only their misunderstanding of the artistic process, but also their actual non -objectiveness. Probably, the mission that Patriarch Kirill does not tire of talking about, should begin with the internal mission. In order for people who call themselves Orthodox people learn to correlate their actions with the spirit of the gospel.

Suddenly strong political sound acquired in 2015 a showdown around the temple construction in green areas. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh and other cities, residents protested against the construction of cult facilities in parks. With the help of a systemic and non -systemic opposition, they managed to stop the construction of a church in the metropolitan park "Peatfyanka", in other places the battles went with varying success.

Summing up the past year, it is also impossible to pass by round dates. Among them is the 25th anniversary of the Preobrazhensky Brotherhood, the largest informal brotherhood in modern church history. The Biblical-Bogoslovsk Institute (BBI) was celebrated his anniversary-a unique institution known for its interfaith projects and diverse publishing activities. In 2015, the 25th anniversary of death and 80 years since the birth of Fr. Alexandra me. In church and cultural circles on the occasion of these two dates, many memorable events passed. All this is milestones of church history. And an extra reminder that vertical intuition of a person has not gone anywhere.

Yes, today the church has entered the zone of silence. They say not those in it. And not about that. But in this zone of silence, important shifts can occur. The ideas of unlimited freedom are alive. But will it be possible to implement them in a situation where hybrid religiosity claims to be a religion?

The question is still unanswered.

Photo: Russia. Moscow. December 27, 2015. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill (on the right) performs the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Yasenev. Artem Korotaev/TASS