Silvia Serrano The Time of Cathedrals: Religious Buildings and Political Legitimation in Post-Soviet Georgia Silvia Serrano - Universite d'Auvergne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France). serrano.sil@gmail.com In the past two decades, the Orthodox Church of Georgia as an institution has been considerably strengthened, and its influence in the public space has significantly grown. As demonstrated by numerous studies, this is partly due to the link between national and religious identities and to the instrumentalization of religion by political elites. However, the concrete ways in which the public authorities have sought to establish their legitimacy thanks to religious references remain to be scrutinized, as well as the constraints they are subjected to. This article focuses on the games of power and strategies of the Patriarchate and the Government around the construction and reconstruction of two cathedrals, Sameba and Bagrati, and on the challenges of building the symbolic national space. Through the analysis of the attempts of the Saakashvili Government to use the symbolic resources provided by major religious buildings, it sheds some light on the limits of the instrumentalization of Orthodoxy in the legitimization of power. Keywords: Orthodox Church of Georgia, national heritage, churches building, de-secularization, public space, religion and politics. ПЕРВАЯ годовщина "революции роз", 23 ноября 2004 г., была ознаменована освящением кафедрального собора Самеба (Пресвятой Троицы) Католикосом-Патриархом Илией II в присутствии православных иерархов, представителей Статья написана в рамках проекта CASCADE (http://www.cascade-caucasus.eu/) Серрано С. Время соборов: культовые здания и политическая легитимность в постсоветской Грузии // Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2016. N2. С. 133-155. Serrano, Silvia (2016) 'The Time of Cathedrals: Religious Buildings and Political Legitimation in Post-Soviet Georgia", Gosuda ... Читать далее