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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.
‘Vernacular’ and ‘Official’ Memories: Looking Beyond the Annual Hasidic Pilgrimages to Uman
Author(s): Marchenko, Alla
Editor(s): Bogumił, Zuzanna; Yurchuk, Yuliya
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Pilgrimage, Tourism, Memory, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Hassidim
Abstract: This chapter analyzes how both Uman locals’ and Hasidic pilgrims’ vernacular memory, as well as official local memory, are manifested in the public space of Uman, a town in central Ukraine, and how these memories interact. It demonstrates how the memories belonging to these groups of pilgrims have been shaped since the 1990s and how they have influenced the town’s memory space. The study also shows how the town’s memory has sometimes been formed in response to these pilgrimages. I argue that there are several distinctive patterns of interaction between the Hasidic pilgrims’ vernacular memory and official local memory. I define these patterns as follows: cooperation between official memory and the vernacular memory of the pilgrims; an exchange between various vernacular memories of several competing groups of pilgrims; the symbolic conflict of two opposing vernacular memories of the space; and competition between official memory and the vernacular memory of the pilgrims.