scholarly journals Iconography of Saint John of Rilla through the Eyes of Pilgrims

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-115
Author(s):  
Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Sacred Site ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Saint John ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Church Art

Iconographic abundance of images of Saint John of Rilla for a long time attracts scholarly interest in regard of preservation, presentation, and digitalisation of the rich cultural heritage of Rilla stavropigial monastery as a monument of culture of international value and central pilgrimage sacred site in Bulgaria. Images, church symbols, and prayer processions as element of tourist branding reach the border of secular and religious cultural practices that represent live Eastern Orthodox Christian heritage. Exploration of the visual representation of the image of Bulgarian patron saint in artistic-theological details deserves interest in the context of the hierotopy of the cult of saints, their relics and icons, and other objects related to their veneration. Keywords:Pilgrimage, Saint John of Rilla, Iconography, Perception of Church Art, Tourist Branding

scholarly journals Image of Saint John of Rilla and the Sustainable Tourist Effect of Pilgrimage

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-138
Author(s):  
Paskal Piperkov ◽  
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Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Emergent Church ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Saint John ◽  
Church Art

Images of Saint John of Rilla are part of ten-year institutionalised tradition of pilgrimage to central sacred space in Bulgaria, the stavropegial monastery Dormition of Theotokos in Rilla mountain. Pilgrims follow the steps of medieval Bulgarians on the route of historical translation of the relics of the reverend saint from Veliko Tarnovo through Sofia to Rilla monastery in 1469. Creating new religious and tourist practice, contemporary Eastern Orthodox guides and local authorities organise popular event richer than just an occasional restoration of previous emergent church procession. Walking through the country on the Sacred Rilla road every summer for more than a month, pilgrims bring, find, and exchange sacred images of Bulgarian patron saint that inspire people and communities, and bring cultural value and tourist sustainability to remote and quiet sacred places. Keywords: pilgrimage, Saint John of Rilla, icons, church art, sustainable tourism

scholarly journals Religious Socialisation of Children and Youth in Eastern Orthodox Christian Church as Educational and Pastoral Challenge of Sharing of Cultural Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Liana Galabova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
The Church

As a result of three decades of social-cultural transformation, Bulgarian literature and practice of religious education though still rare is increasing and improving. As the Church recovers, local parishes, monasteries, and convents become visibly re-socialised and motivated again to provide more adequate pastoral care for all ages. This study explores the importance of informal improvisation and innovation as an approach, in the best interest of children and youth, at a time when an effective, regulated mass public religious education system in Bulgaria is not likely to appear soon. At the same time, revitalised eparchial, parish, convent, and monastery centres start meeting actual needs of renewed church ethos, and begin to provide opportunities for religious socialisation of children and youth that is more functional. Based on direct and indirect experience, on observation, and on partial access to limited local empirical data (that is historically and/or anthropologically only partially explored and categorised), this paper contributes to the analysis of the following unresolved issue: how to direct research toward and keep account of well-known educational and pastoral practices, whether traditional or contemporary, that aid the effective and sustainable religious socialisation of children and youth.

scholarly journals Barriers to the Digital and Physical Accessibility of the Religious Cultural Heritage of Holy Mount of Sofia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Galina Bogdanova ◽  
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Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Church Management ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Internal Characteristic ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Pilgrimage Tourism ◽  
Physical Accessibility

Accessibility of religious centres and their additional hierotopical natural and architectural spaces, although implied by virtues of responsibility, solidarity, care, charity, and love, does not seem to be internal characteristic priority in confessional specifics of socialisation of private and public places by Eastern Orthodox Christian Church. Management of living heritage (traditional and reconstructed), as well as of tangible (movable and immovable) church cultural heritage, of artworks and art performances according to their artistic value, and of feasts and practices, according to their touristic potential is accomplished mostly in the interest of their liturgical confessional function in the context of Eastern Orthodox Christian subcultural lifestyle in its whole traditional and contemporary global variety. Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Sacred Sites, Accessibility, Special Needs, Tourist Socialisation, Subcultures, Monuments of Culture, Eastern Christian Orthodox Church, Pilgrimage tourism, Holly Mount of Sofia

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Proving of Accessibility of Balkan Sacred Sites for People with Special Needs (Part 1)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Galina Bogdanova ◽  
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Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
Balkan Region ◽  
Pilgrimage Tourism

Balkan region is one of the representative territories of cultural heritage of Eastern Orthodox Christian Church. Balkans are also space of creation, inhabitation, visiting, representation, and safeguarding of emblematic sacred sites. Based on experience and our continuous detailed and analytical observation on accessibility in the context of pilgrimage tourism of Balkan countries, this paper assumes variety of data and perspectives on heritage management by interdisciplinary expert communication. Keywords: Accessibility Studies; Socialisation of Cultural Heritage; Eastern Orthodox Christian Church; Pilgrimage Tourism; Management of Sacred Sites; Accessibility of Religious Places; Objects; Denominational Events and Data

Biblical Literacy and the English King James Liberal Bible

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
James Crossley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Biblical Literacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Liberal Capitalism ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Popular Nationalism ◽  
King James Bible

Using the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible as a test case, this article illustrates some of the important ways in which the Bible is understood and consumed and how it has continued to survive in an age of neoliberalism and postmodernity. It is clear that instant recognition of the Bible-as-artefact, multiple repackaging and pithy biblical phrases, combined with a popular nationalism, provide distinctive strands of this understanding and survival. It is also clear that the KJV is seen as a key part of a proud English cultural heritage and tied in with traditions of democracy and tolerance, despite having next to nothing to do with either. Anything potentially problematic for Western liberal discourse (e.g. calling outsiders “dogs,” smashing babies heads against rocks, Hades-fire for the rich, killing heretics, using the Bible to convert and colonize, etc.) is effectively removed, or even encouraged to be removed, from such discussions of the KJV and the Bible in the public arena. In other words, this is a decaffeinated Bible that has been colonized by, and has adapted to, Western liberal capitalism.

FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE FORMER KETSKAYA VOLOST

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Sitnikova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
Tomsk Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rural Architecture ◽  
The Village ◽  
Rich History

The article considers the historical and cultural heritage of villages of the former Ketskaya volost, which is currently a part of the Tomsk region. The formation of Ketsky prison and the architecture of large settlements of the former Ketskaya volost are studied. Little is known about the historical and cultural heritage of villages of the Tomsk region and the problems of preserving historical settlements of the country.The aim of this work is to study the formation and development of the village architecture of the former Ketskaya volost, currently included in the Tomsk region.The following scientific methods are used: a critical analysis of the literature, comparative architectural analysis and systems analysis of information, creative synthesis of the findings. The obtained results can be used in preparation of lectures, reports and communication on the history of the Siberian architecture.The scientific novelty is a study of the historical and cultural heritage of large settlements of the former Ketskaya volost, which has not been studied and published before. The methodological and theoretical basis of the study is theoretical works of historians and architects regarding the issue under study as well as the previous  author’s work in the field.It is found that the historical and cultural heritage of the villages of the former Ketskaya volost has a rich history. Old historical buildings, including religious ones are preserved in villages of Togur and Novoilinka. The urban planning of the villages reflects the design and construction principles of the 18th century. The rich natural environment gives this area a special touch. 

scholarly journals Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Aktürk ◽  
Martha Lerski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractClimate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues of discrimination, conflict, and security. As the number of climate-displaced populations grows, the generations-deep connection to their rituals, customs, and ancestral ties with the land, cultural practices, and intangible cultural heritage become endangered. However, intangible heritage is often overlooked in the context of climate displacement. This paper presents reflections based on observations regarding the intangible heritage of voluntarily displaced communities. It begins by examining intangible heritage under the threat of climate displacement, with place-based examples. It then reveals intangible heritage as a catalyst to building resilient communities by advocating for the cultural values of indigenous and all people in climate action planning. It concludes the discussion by presenting the implications of climate displacement in existing intangible heritage initiatives. This article seeks to contribute to the emerging policies of preserving intangible heritage in the context of climate displacement.

scholarly journals Cultural rights and “Masterpieces” of Local and Translocal Actors

Ethnologies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 297-324
Author(s):  
Hélène Giguère
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Social Divisions

This paper deals with European experiences of inscription of traditional cultural practices on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). It will first establish the institutional context of the UNESCO’s listing within the framework of reflections on cultural rights. Then, the author briefly presents four European masterpieces in the Mediterranean area. A comparative analysis follows which specifically focuses on the multiplication of practitioners and on translocality; on the overlapping between institutions and artisans; on the use of intangible cultural heritage as a driver for local development via cultural tourism; and on the multimedia “museification” of the intangible. The comparative study of the listing of these intangible cultural heritage traditions also questions the value of customary law versus freedom of expression and creation. It reveals the tensions between the “purity” and “impurity” of cultural practices and social agents, as well as exclusions related to ethnicity, sex or territory. These tensions create new social divisions and remodel the link people have with cultural practices. An examination of gender sheds light on the marginality of women in public space.

scholarly journals Arkistot ja kulttuuriperintö

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Archival Institution

Archives and the Cultural Heritage The edited volume Archives and the Cultural Heritage focuses on archives as institutions and to their tense relationship with archives as material. These dynamics are discussed in respect of the past, the present, and the future. The focus lies in the mechanisms the Finnish archive institutions have utilised when taking part in forming the cultural heritage and in debating the importance of the private archives in society. Within social sciences and history from the early 1990s onwards, the effects of globalisation have been seen as a new focal point for research. Momentarily, the archives saw the same paradigm shift as the focus of the archival studies proceeded from state to society. This brought forth the notion that the values of society are reflected in the acquisition of archival material. This archival turn draws attention to the archives as entities formed by cultural practices. The volume discusses cultural heritage within Finnish archives with diverse perspectives and from various time periods. The key concepts are cultural heritage and archives – both as institution and as material. Articles review the formation of archival collections spanning from the 19th to the 21st century and highlight that the archives have never been neutral or objective actors; rather, they have always been an active process of remembering and forgetting, a matter of inclusion and exclusion. The focus is on private archives and on the choices that guided the creation of the archives and the cultural perceptions and power structures associated with them. Although private archives have considerable social and research value, and although their material complements the picture of society provided by documentary data produced by public administrations, they have only risen to the theoretical discussions in the 21st century. The authors consider what has happened before the material ends up in the archive, what happens in the archive and what can be deduced from this. It shows how archival solutions manifest themselves, how they have influenced research and how they still affect it. One of the key questions is whose past has been preserved and whose is deemed worthy of preservation. Under what conditions have the permanently preserved documents been selected and how can they be accessed? In addition, the volume pays attention to whose documents have been ignored or forgotten, as well as to the networks and power of the individuals within the archival institution and to the politics of memory. The Archives and the Cultural Heritage is an opening to a discussion on the mechanisms, practices and goals of Finnish archival activities. It challenges archival organisations to reflect on their own operating models and to make visible their own conscious or unconscious choices. It raises awareness of the formation of the Finnish documentary cultural heritage, produces new information about private archives and participates in the scientific debate on the changing significance of archives in society. The volume is related to the Academy of Finland research project “Making and Interpreting National Pasts – Role of Finnish Archives as Networks of Power and Sites of Memory” (no 25257, 2011–2014/2019), University of Turku. Project partners Finnish Literature Society (SKS) and Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS).

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