Ortodossia russa e dissenso: soggetti, sanzioni, alterita

The paper analyzes how the Russian Orthodox Church shapes the boundaries of belonging and otherness through its treatment of dissent, employing canonical, administrative, and criminal measures. By examining both individual and collective forms of dissent, as well as cases of institutional fragmentation within the Orthodox world, the article shows how dissent may lead either to exclusion or to the reconfiguration of ecclesial subjectivity. The cases of Ioann Kurmoyarov and the “three hundred” anti-war priests reveal how dissenters are progressively excluded from ecclesial subjectivity within a system where religious identity and political ideology are closely intertwined.