Religious elements play a significant role in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Russia has used religion to justify parts of the war that has been going on since 2014, the invasion of 24 February 2022 and its own war propaganda. In Ukraine, meanwhile, a church dispute continues that has concrete political and human rights implications, Islam plays an often overlooked role on both sides of the front, and the war in Russia also represents a paradigm shift for the security of Jewish life.
This volume assembles contributions by authors from the fields of political science, ecumenics, theology, history, sociology, and ethics. All contributions are united by the basic assumption that although the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is not a War of Religion, but it cannot be understood without considering and analysing the religious elements and contexts of justification.

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The editor: Dr Richard Ottinger studied German, Philosophy and Catholic Theology in Osnabrück and Münster. Since 2024, he is responsible for the topic 'Social Cohesion and Religion' at the Think Tank within the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, after working for the foundation in the Department of International Religious Dialogue in 2021-24. Previously, Ottinger worked as a Researcher in the Department of Catholic Moral Theology at the University of Münster. He was also an Adjunct Lecturer at Osnabrück, Münster, Vechta and Siegen. His previous books include Leibliche Authentizität und digitale Mediatisierung (Karl-Alber-Verlag 2023). His articles on media ethics, religious politics and interreligious dialogue have appeared in the journals Theologie und Philosophie and Herder Korrespondenz, on n-tv and in the magazine Cicero.