On 17 November, a public lecture was held at St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University on the topic “Memory Politics in Medieval Georgia: The Transformation of Cult Identity in State-Church Relations”. The lecture was delivered by Mr Daniel Okropiridze, a doctoral student of Sokhumi University.
The lecture discussed the ways in which political reality influenced the formation of the identity of religious cults. The speaker also highlighted the role of memory politics in the distribution of power and the construction of collective identity and explained how collective identity is shaped through symbolic narratives and ritual-cultural constructions.
From the perspective of political theology, the lecture focused on those cultural and political processes that determined the formation of the cult of the preachers of Christianity as figures who strengthened Georgian statehood.
