Zhukova Olga Anatolyevna
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
National Research University
Higher School of Economics
e-mail: logoscultura@yandex.ru

Religious Interpretation of Freedom in Russian Philosophy of Culture and Politics

Abstract. The article focuses on a specific interaction between the political and religious traditions in Russia’s social history. The author discusses the ontological status of freedom in national religious, philosophical and public ideas and its political reflection in Russian Christian liberalism.

Key words. Culture, freedom, Christian liberalism, social order, political tradition, modern, Westernism.

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