The goal of this paper is to reveal a few trends in the interaction between religious, national, and ethnic identities as applied to the understanding of current developments in the South Caucasus. It starts with the dominant paradigms in scholarship of identities that has undergone deep evolution towards post-modern washing-out of old solid concepts, such as ethnos, nations, and religion. It turns next to those objective and subjective developments in the emerging new societies of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, which seem to contradict the fashionable academic episteme by recreating robust and powerful concepts of ethnos, nation, and religion. Finally, it will suggest a more complex interpretation that would mitigate the above contradiction between dominant academic scholarship and the societal processes.
Keywords: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, ethnos, nation-state, religion, ethnonationalism, primordialism, constructivism, Soviet legacy.
The purpose of this paper is to identify the main current trends in the correlated dynamics of religious, national and ethnic identities, to the extent and in how they can be applied to the understanding of modern processes in the South Caucasus. Although here we are all first-
The article was written in the framework of the research project "Religion and Society in the Caucasus: Forms of interaction and modern Dynamics" (2016, RANEPA Public Communications Analysis Laboratory).
Aghajanyan A. Etnos, natsiya i religiya: nauchnye paradigmy i real'nost ' Yuzhnogo Kavkaza [Ethnos, Nation and Religion: scientific paradigms and reality of the South Caucasus]. 2016. N2. pp. 331-356.
Agadjanian, Alexander (2016) "Ethnos, Nation, and Religion: Scholarly Paradigms and the Societal Processes in the South Caucasus", Gosudarstuo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii г za rubezhom 34(2): 331-356.
page 331go is interested in the Caucasian theme, parallels with other regions of the world are inevitable. The trends in question are truly global. Everywhere ...
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