%0 Journal Article
%T Religion, Tradition and Freedom: the Religious Dimension of Pyotr Chaadayev’s Philosophy
%A Augustyn, Leszek
%J Studia Religiologica
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/20844077SR.16.001.4901
%N Volume 49, Issue 1
%P 1-19
%K Pyotr Chaadayev, Russian philosophy, philosophy of religion, Russian conservatism
%@ 0137-2432
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/o-religii-tradycji-i-wolnosci-religijny-wymiar-mysli-piotra-czaadajewa
%X 
	Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (1794–1856), the author of the famous Philosophical Letters, is usually regarded as a “paradoxical” conservative, a representative of historiosophy and a social thinker. In the present paper Chaadayev is discussed from the perspective of the philosophy of religion with special emphasis put on the following issues: tradition vs religion (the traditionalist’s standpoint), history vs religion, freedom vs religion, and an outline of the proposed philosophy of religion (or religious philosophy). The paper also touches upon typically Russian issues: Russian identity facing the West, and primarily religious Occidentalism, which was the position taken and elaborated by Chaadayev.