Tatiana Goricheva

Tatiana Goricheva
Born	12 August 1947  theologian

Tatiana Goricheva (born 1947) is a Russian philosopher, theologian, dissident and feminist. She was editor of Woman and Russia: An Almanac for Women about Women, the feminist samizdat journal, as well as a founder of the Mariia club.^[1]

Life

Goricheva studied at

In 1974 she converted to the Russian Orthodox Church.^[2]

She collaborated with Tatiana Mamonova on the feminist samizdat journal Woman and Russia, which appeared in 1979. After Mamonova's expulsion from the Soviet Union, she and Leningrad colleagues formed a women's group known as the Mariia club. After Goricheva was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1980, she settled in Paris. There she founded the philosophical and religious journal Conversations, which was published from 1983 to 1991.^[2]

Goricheva characterizes modern Western culture as 'post-nihilistic', in its indifference to religion. However, she sees this disinterest in the sacred as potentially itself akin to Christ's

Holy fools, like cynics, are completely liberated from common sense and all of life's conventions [...] They are indecent to such a degree that they may be enlisted as Rabelaisian characters. They are grotesque and sometime seem, as did the cynics, like animals.^[2]

Works

• Talking about God is dangerous: my experiences in the East and in the West. 1986.
• Cry of the spirit : witnesses to faith in the Soviet Union. 1989.

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