Educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in religious and state-municipal education in 1990–2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Tatiana Sklyarova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Educational Activities

scholarly journals Activities of the Socially Oriented Organizations of the Russian Orthodox Church: The Regional Aspects

REGIONOLOGY ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga A. Bogatova ◽  
Evgenia I. Dolgaeva ◽  
Anastasia V. Mitrofanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Technologies

Introduction. The article analyzes the results of the sociological research undertaken by the authors in 2018 within the framework of the research project “Social Projects of the Russian Orthodox Church” in terms of comparing motivation, social technologies and social consequences of implementing Orthodox social projects in the capital and other regions of Russia in order to identify factors contributing to and hindering their successful implementation at the regional level. The purpose of the empirical research was to identify the social functions fulfilled in the process of developing and implementing social projects by organizations within the structure of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), as well as by lay organizations created and headed by parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church. Materials and Methods. The study used qualitative methods of collecting and analyzing sociological data such as observation, in-depth interviews with people participating in social activities of the Orthodox projects and with the members of their target groups. The qualitative study used theoretical sampling and the method of selecting typical cases, which made it possible to describe and analyze social technologies and the consequences of the Orthodox social activities in different areas of impact on the society, including helping the poor and the socially deprived strata of the population, rehabilitation of the disabled, ‘pro-life’ movements, as well as educational activities. Results. In the process of research, based on the analysis of the survey data, the goals of the Orthodox social projects and their hierarchy have been identified, as well as the peculiarities of motivation of the activities of the participants of the Orthodox social projects studied and the specifics of the forms of organizing social assistance in Moscow, the Republic of Mordovia, and the Ivanovo Region. The social technologies of direct and indirect influence of the Orthodox social projects in terms of educational activities have been studied. The authors sought to assess the transformational consequences of implementation of the Orthodox social projects studied at the levels of the individual, social institutions, and groups. Discussion and Conclusion. The study has revealed that the Orthodox social initiatives help their participants master such skills as fundraising, interaction with the society, government bodies and commercial entities, thus becoming an important segment of civil society. The main difficulties the Orthodox social projects encounter have been revealed: poor systemic work and dependence on the personality of the leader, dependence on grants. The scientific results of the study can be used when developing strategies and implementing social policies with the participation of Orthodox non-profit organizations through a comprehensive analysis of methods and social technologies.

Additional and Non-Institutional Education of the Russian Orthodox Church in Modern Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Tatiana Vladimirovna Sklyarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Parish Schools

Problem and purpose. This article analyzes the correspondence of the implemented experiences of educational activities in the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church to the state regulatory documents governing education. The subject of the research is the educational activity of Sunday parish schools of the Russian Orthodox Church, defined as a set of processes of religious education, educational initiatives, organizational and pedagogical conditions, and administrative and managerial decisions. The problem of the study is due to the revealed contradiction between the mass activity of Sunday parochial schools in modern Russia and the absence in most of them of a license to conduct educational activities. The purpose of the article is to determine the conditions for conducting educational activities, to characterize the types, forms and methods of its implementation, to describe administrative and managerial decisions regarding the existing Sunday parish schools of the Russian Orthodox Church and to correlate them with the existing norms of the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”. Methodology. The study was carried out on the basis of an analysis of the documents regulating the educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church and their compliance with the federal legislation of the Russian Federation in relation to the organization and conduct of educational activities. Correlation of the existing experience in the implementation of educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church with the definitions of formal, non-formal, informal and additional education necessitated the introduction of the concept of “extra-institutional education”. The non-institutional education of the Russian Orthodox Church is characterized as an existing phenomenon, its signs are given. In conclusion, it is concluded that the implementation of extra-institutional forms of education indicates a non-professional approach to the organization of educational activities in the parish institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.

scholarly journals Educational Activities of the Altai Ecclesiastical Mission in Mounting Altai and Mounting Shoria in the Second Half of the 19th – Early of the 20th Centurу

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Yu. M. Goncharov ◽  
◽  
L. M. Dmitrieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Mission Schools ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Almost All

The missionary activity of the Russian Orthodox Church was of great importance for the socio-cultural development of the outskirts of the Russian Empire. The purpose of the work is to consider the educational and educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Siberia on the example of the Altai Ecclesiastical Mission, which operated on the territory of modern Mounting Altai and Mounting Shoria. The article discusses the process of creating mission schools, the specifics of their activities. The basis of the mission's educational activities was the understanding that schools are the most effective way to spread Christian teaching and education. Because of this, large financial resources were allocated for the development of schools. It was common practice to attract merchants to finance the construction and equipment of school buildings. The opening of schools and the education of aboriginal children in them sometimes met with resistance from the local population. Altai missionaries contributed to the formation of the national culture of the inhabitants of Altai and Mounting Shoria. The activities of the Altai Ecclesiastical Mission influenced the formation of the Altai intelligentsia. The first representatives of the national intelligentsia of the Altai Mountains (teachers, writers, artists, doctors) were almost all either students of mission schools, children of foreign missionaries, or employees of the mission. The missionary and educational activities of the Altai Ecclesiastical Mission consistently achieved its main goal – the rebirth of the pagan way of thinking of foreigners, the formation as individuals of entire generations in the bosom of the Orthodox Church. The educational nature of the activities of the Altai Spiritual Mission contributed to the birth of a new culture: the spread of sedentary life, literacy of the local population.

Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve

2001 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Yu. Ye. Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Press ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
Future Policy

Last year, the anniversary of all Christianity, witnessed a number of significant events caused by a new interest in understanding the problem of the unity of the Christian Church on the turn of the millennium. Due to the confidentiality of Ukraine, some of these events have or will have an immediate impact on Christianity in Ukraine and on the whole Ukrainian society as a whole. Undoubtedly, the main event, or more enlightened in the press, is a new impetus to the unification of the UOC-KP and the UAOC. But we would like to focus on two documents relating to the problem of Christian unity, the emergence of which was almost unnoticed by the wider public. But at the same time, these documents are too important as they outline the future policy of other Christian denominations by two influential Ukrainian christian churches - the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. These are the "Basic Principles of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the" I ", adopted by the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Concept of the Ecumenical Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, adopted by the Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC. It is clear that the theme of the second document is wider, but at the same time, ecumenism, unification is impossible without solving the problem of relations with others, which makes it possible to compare the approaches laid down in the mentioned documents to the building of relations with other Christian confessions.

Ransoming Russians from Tatars: Justification and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Donald Ostrowski
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
The Government ◽  
Modern Russian

The early modern Russian government and Russian Orthodox Church identified as one of their main duties the ransoming of Russian Christians from Muslim Tatar captors. The process of ransoming could be an involved one with negotiations being carried on by different agents and by the potential ransomees themselves. Different amounts of ransom were paid on a sliding scale depending upon the ransomee’s social status, gender, and age. One of our main sources for the justification of this practice was the Stoglav (100 Chapters) Church Council in 1551, which discussed the issue of ransom in some detail. The Law Code (Ulozhenie) of 1649 specifies the conditions and amounts to be paid to redeem captives. Church writers justified the ransoming of Christian captives of the Muslim Tatars by citing Scripture, and they also specified that the government should pay the ransom out of its own treasury.

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