Globalization in the Russian Orthodox Thought

Abstract

Relationship the Roman Catholic Church to the globalization is different than Russian Church. Rome can see threatening in the economic, Moscow in cultural and anthropological sphere. For the Russian church is important a cooperation with the government. Government and the Orthodox are two factors of the identification of Russian. Historian Aleksy Harin ar confronting the civilization with the empire. He is identifying the civilization with values. Political scientist Andrej Okara claims that Russia identifiction itself through the confrontation with the West. The Eastern culture is different than eastern in understanding the meaning of the life and death. Olympius prior (Kastalski) notices positive sides of the globalization. The oblivion characteristic of the globalization is summoning the memory, the standardization of the human appearance is giving rise to longing for the icon.

Defects in the globalization are shown by Russian thinkers in the space not in the time, their ontology is important, not an evolution. Therefore globalization which has historical features, however for her ontology is from time immemorial unchanging.