Homosexuality and hypermasculinity in the public discourse of the Russian Orthodox Church: an affect theoretical approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heleen Zorgdrager
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Social and Political Consequences of the Pandemic for the Russian Orthodox Church

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-558
Author(s):  
Roman N. Lunkin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
The Church

In the article analyzed the social and political consequences of pandemic of coronavirus for the Russian Orthodox Church in the context of the reaction of different European churches on the quarantine rules and critics towards the church inside Russia. The author used the structural-functional and institutional approaches for the evaluation of the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church, was analyzed the sources of mass-media and the public claims of the clergy. In the article was made a conclusion that Orthodox Church expressed itself during the struggle with coronavirus as national civic institute where could be represented various even polar views. Also the parish activity leads to the formation of the democratic society affiliated with the Church and the role of that phenomenon have to be explored in a future. The coronacrisis makes open the inner potential of the civic activity and different forms of the social service in Russian Church. In the same time pandemic provoked the development of the volunteer activity in the around-church environment and also in the non-church circles among the young people and the generation of 40th age where the idea of the social responsibility for themselves and people around and the significance of the civil rights was one of the popular ideas till 2019. The conditions of the self-isolation also forced the clergy to struggle for their parishioners and once again renovate the role of the church in the society and in the cyber space.

scholarly journals Konflikty pamięci? — O interpretacjach historii Gułagu

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Bogumił
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Transitions ◽  
History Of

Until the end of 1980s, the topic of Soviet persecutions was tabooed in the USSR. Political and social transitions that took place in that period finally eroded the wall of silence. The stories about Gulag past started to appear in the newspapers and the witnesses finally spoke. The reconstruction of the history of the Gulag, proposed at that time, became the cornerstone of the public memory of this historical experience. In my paper, I use Michel Foucault’s concept of anti-history in order to analyse the methods of interpretation and commemorating of these tragic events of the 20th century by the Memorial Society and by the Russian Orthodox Church. It was these two institutions who were the most active in the process of forming the contemporary perception of the Gulag. The interpretations proposed by them are comprehensive constructs that explain the Gulag system in all its complexity. On the basis of materials gathered during field research in Russia, I deconstruct the significance of secular and religious anti-history discourses and analyse their influence on the perceptions of the Soviet persecutions in today’s Russia.

scholarly journals Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia: General Points of Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Kseniya Makarova ◽  
Michael Kazakov
Keyword(s):  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Current State ◽  
Special Part ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The present research featured the public diplomacy of Russia in Armenia. The paper focuses on the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church as an institute of civil society in the context of Russian public diplomacy. It describes mechanisms and instruments used by religious organizations in Armenia. The research objective was to analyze the presence of the Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia as a special part of Russian public diplomacy mechanism. The authors employed analysis and synthesis to get a complex presentation of the subject, as well as induction and deduction to interpret facts. The historical method was used to study the phenomenon in its development. The network approach was used to study the current state of the phenomenon. The activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia is represented as part of Russian public diplomacy, which creates favorable conditions for achieving Russian foreign diplomacy goals. The results of the research can be used for studying principles and mechanisms of Russian public diplomacy. In conclusion, the authors claim that involvement of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russian public diplomacy can decrease the tension in Armenian public sphere. The tension is caused by various pseudo-religious movements that interfere with the restructuring of the local confessional space. Therefore, there is a growing need in a closer interaction between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Armenian apostolic church.

scholarly journals Analysis of Modern Systems of Announcement Before Baptism in the Russian Orthodox Church

2019 ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Михаил Васильевич Крикота
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The New Testament

В данной статье рассматриваются огласительные системы катехизации перед Крещением. По рекомендации современных катехизаторов следует разделять курс предкрещального оглашения на несколько бесед, в рамках которых нужно обучить оглашаемых основам христианского вероучения. Несмотря на то, что методики и подходы к оглашению у каждого катехизатора разные, все они, однако, отмечают, что в обязательном порядке проходящие катехизацию должны ознакомиться с главными событиями Ветхого Завета и Нового Завета, заповедями, содержанием церковных таинств и основными дисциплинарными нормами жизнедеятельности христианина. Большое внимание авторы катехизационных систем уделяют выяснению истинных причин Крещения оглашаемого, а также призывают строить общение с аудиторией в форме диалога. Знакомство с самыми примечательными практиками оглашения наших дней позволило определить, что самой полной и подходящей к современным условиям церковной жизни являются системы оглашения, рекомендуемые Синодальным отделом по религиозному образованию и катехизации, поскольку они предлагают вариативность в структуре огласительного процесса, а также насыщены широкой материальной базой. On the recommendation of modern catechists should be divided into a course of pre-baptismal announcement of several conversations, in which you need to teach the basics of the Christian faith announced. Despite the fact that the methods and approaches to the announcement of each catechist are different, all of them, however, note that it is mandatory for the catechists to become familiar with the main events of the old Testament and the New Testament, the commandments, the content of Church Sacraments and the basic disciplinary norms of Christian life. Much attention is paid to the authors of catechetical systems to clarify the true causes of the Baptism of the public, as well as call to build communication with the audience in the form of dialogue. Familiarity with the most remarkable practices of the announcement of our days made it possible to determine that the most complete and suitable to the modern conditions of Church life are the systems of the announcement proposed by the Synodal Department for religious education and catechization, as they offer variability in the structure of the announcement process, as well as a wide material base.

scholarly journals Renegation in the Russian Orthodox Church: Undermining Foundations or Purification? To the Question of Church-State Relations in the 1960es

2014 ◽  
pp. 114-119
Author(s):  
Dmitry I. Sazonov
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
The Times ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Church

Addresses the times of the Khrushchev thaw as a period of the Russian Orthodox Church persecution. The public rejections of faith by some priests or Renegation were among its instruments. Their “revelations of religion” were used for propaganda of atheist worldview by the Communist Party representatives. However, the Renegation has not undermined the Church foundations; the author argues that it has only expelled Vicars of Bray and disappeared as a phenomenon when new relationship between the State and the Church was established

Ritual and commemoration in contemporary Russia

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (67) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Tobias Köllner
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Public Holidays

Since state atheism was abandoned in the 1990s, the Russian Federation entered what can be called a postsecular phase. Religion, formerly limited to the private sphere, reappeared in the public and underwent an astonishing religious revival. During the time of my fieldwork in 2006/2007, a tendency to favor the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and to facilitate its return to the public reached its climax. In this article I draw attention to how the political, the secular, and the religious are interconnected and allow for new vernacular forms of legitimating power and authority. One example is the introduction of new public holidays and public rituals. They connect local and national narratives and relate to ideas about the communality of the Russian people. They create new forms of a divine kinship, which draw heavily on religious and national symbols and merge the sacred and the profane.

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