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Religious echoes of the Donbas conflict: The discourses of the Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities in Ukraine
Author(s): Zasanska, Nadia
Editor(s): Bogumił, Zuzanna; Yurchuk, Yuliya
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Jewish - Christian Relations, War, Conflict, Discourse and Discourse Analysis, Memory
Abstract: Previous research on the ongoing Donbas conflict has mainly considered its political, national and historical dimensions, while studies of any religious input continue to be fragmented. This comparative study discusses how the Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities in Ukraine are narrating the Donbas conflict in digital media. In particular, the research explores the main themes and rhetorical strategies that appeared in six religious discourses during 2014–18. It also examines religious discourse in relation to the collective memory it constructs, mediates and shapes. The results demonstrate how religious organizations have shaped various images of the conflict by highlighting or backgrounding certain themes or by sacralizing events, actors and places from the collective past or present.