“Tearing the Root of Evil from the Structure of the World”: Religious Logics in the Works of Alexander Dugin

Abstract This article examines the figure of Alexander Dugin (b. 1962) as a religious thinker and actor. This examination is embedded in a broader discussion of the influence of religion on politics – the author proposes studying this influence through an analysis of specific religious logics and their manifestations in the political field. Accordingly, in the first part of the work, the author explains his conceptual framework – he defines religious logics and explains the main ones. In the second part of the work, the author demonstrates how these logics manifest in the ideological legacy of Alexander Dugin – specifically, the logic of the superhuman determination, the logic of the numinous, the logic of salvation, and the logic of world-making and meaning-making. The study then demonstrates how these logics are embodied in Dugin’s specific political projects – in his idea of a conservative revolution as the attainment of Paradise, as well as a global uprising against the global liberal order. Dugin’s ideas on the restructuring of Russia are examined separately.