Shamanism and Christianity on the Russian Siberian Borderland Altaian Responses to Russian Orthodox Missionaries (1830–1917)

Itinerario ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-130
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Znamenski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Indigenous Religion

For those historians and anthropologists who study shamanism, Altai represents the ‘motherland’ of this institution. For their inspirations scholars who want to explore ‘classical’ cases of shamanism usually turn to this area, located in south-western Siberia, at the intersection of Russian, Mongolian and Chinese borders. At the same time, many of these scholars, who are concerned with a quest for ‘ideal’ and ‘traditionalist’ shamanism, ignore almost one-hundred years of contacts between native Altaians and the Russian Orthodox mission that considerably affected indigenous culture and ideology. For instance, some Russian anthropologists have stressed that despite Christian activities, natives still clung to their traditional beliefs at the turn of the twentieth century. N.A. Alekseev emphasised the superficial character of native Christianization and stressed the persistence of indigenous religion. In his recent work, Potapov, another prominent Altaian scholar, similarly concluded:

Deuteronomy, Hosea, and the Theory of Northern Origins

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill T. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of

Deuteronomy appears to share numerous thematic and phraseological connections with the book of Hosea from the eighth century bce. Investigation of these connections during the early twentieth century settled upon a scholarly consensus, which has broken down in more recent work. Related to this question is the possibility of northern origins of Deuteronomy—as a whole, or more likely, in an early proto-Deuteronomy legal core. This chapter surveys the history of the investigation leading up to the current impasse and offers a reexamination of the problem from the standpoint of one passage in Hosea.

scholarly journals Social doctrine of Russian Orthodoxy: will it be two steps back?

2002 ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Oleksandr N. Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodoxy ◽  
Socialist System ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Social

The fall of the socialist system in the early 90's of the twentieth century. led to the return of the Orthodox Churches of Europe to the active social and political life of the post-Soviet countries. Therefore, the adoption in August 2000 by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of the social doctrine became a necessary stage in the development of Russian Orthodoxy, and at the same time marked the beginning of a new time of not only this Church, but the whole Ecumenical Orthodoxy. However, this serious doctrine did not cause any serious attention, except for one or two colloquiums organized by the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The wave of theological and non-fiction works on the hot topics raised in the Doctrine also did not happen to the experts.

The Influence of Russian Religious Thought on Western Theology in the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 659-676
Author(s):  
Paul Valliere
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Russian Religious Thought ◽  
The Impact

This chapter canvasses the impact of Russian religious thought on major thinkers and movements in twentieth-century Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. Noting the unique role played by the Russian emigration that emerged in the West following the Russian Civil War (1918–1920), the chapter assesses the influence of Russian Orthodox thinkers on six streams of modern Western theology: Karl Barth and Evangelical theology, liberal Protestantism, Anglicanism, Yves Congar and early Roman Catholic ecumenism, nouvelle théologie and ressourcement, and liberation theology. The chapter argues that the most important venues of Russian influence on Western theology were the Ecumenical Movement and the Second Vatican Council. The most eminent English-speaking theologians to engage deeply with Russian Orthodox thought in the twentieth century were Jaroslav Pelikan and Rowan Williams. The chapter concludes by noting the passion for East/West unity that inspired the Russians and their Western Christian partners in the twentieth-century dialogue.

Trubetskoi, Evgenii Nikolaevich (1863–1920)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Grier
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First World War ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Prince Evgenii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi was a prominent philosopher of law known also for his works on Solov’ëv, Kant, Nietzsche, ethics and religion (including Russian Orthodox iconography). Personally and philosophically very close to Solov’ëv, he was recognized as the most important commentator on the older philosopher’s work in the early twentieth century. He was a staunch Russian patriot, devoutly Orthodox, active in various political, cultural and religious organizations aimed at maintaining the Russian way of life threatened first by the First World War and then by the Bolshevik revolution.

God in the Rainforest

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn T. Long
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The People ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Case Basis

This book tells the story of missionary work during the second half of the twentieth century among the Waorani (once known as “aucas”), an isolated and violent indigenous group in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The missionary-Waorani relationship began tragically in January 1956, when five young men, American missionaries, were speared to death by Wao warriors. Two years later, Elisabeth Elliot, the widow of one of the slain men, and Rachel Saint, the sister of another, with the help of a Wao woman named Dayomæ, made peaceful contact with the people who had killed their loved ones. Subsequent accounts of the Christianization of the Waorani became a success story with a powerful hold on the imaginations of American evangelicals. This book shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. It argues that the global expansion of Christianity on a case-by-case basis is complicated, even messy, much more so than either mythmakers or critics wish to acknowledge. It also provides a more complete reconstruction than previously available of what happened in Ecuador during the four decades after the men were killed, focusing on the little-known missionaries who came after the five slain men and on the Waorani themselves.

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