“War and Peace” Image in the Russian Orthodox Church in the Early Postwar Period: Content Analysis of the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate”

The article is devoted to the difficult fate of the old believers' priests of the Russian Orthodox Church of Old Believers in the period of Stalin's repression, the events on the World War II East Front and the postwar period, associated with a new oppression against the Church. The author restores the fate of old believers' priests from the ancient centres of Starodub and Vietka, who managed to preserve, despite the repression by the Soviet authorities, the faith of their ancestors, to show selflessness in relation to their flock, love for the Motherland, patriotism. The analysis of published biographies of old believers' priests of the Russian Orthodox Church of Old Believers, the memories of old believers themselves, recorded by the author, allow tracing the difficult way of restoring the spiritual life of old believer communities of Starodub and Vietka in this period, to show the regional aspects of the activity of old believers' priests in the field of state-confessional relations, their interaction with members of communities.

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Leo Tolstoi's Christian Pacifism: The American Contribution

The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies ◽

10.5195/cbp.1987.29 ◽

1987 ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Jayme A. Sokolow ◽

Priscilla R. Roosev

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Russian Orthodox ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Narrative Fiction ◽

War And Peace ◽

Russian Orthodox Church ◽

Spiritual Crisis ◽

American Contribution

In 1869, shortly after completing War and Peace and in seemingreaction to an intense spiritual crisis known as "the Arzamas terror," Lev NikoJaevich Tolstoi appears to have decided to abandon the narrative fiction at which he excelled. Within a decade he had begun to produce the religious and didactic writings which were to bring him equal fame as a Christian moralist and philosopher. By 1883, when he published What I Believe (V chem moia vera?), Tolstoi was counseling absolute nonresistance to evil. In subsequent years he quarreled with the Russian Orthodox Church, rejected the state and its coercive apparatus, and became a corrosive critic of his society.

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Harry Potter and the Orthodox community: еxperience in content analysis

Al`manah «Etnodialogi» ◽

10.37492/etno.2020.62.4.006 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ю.Ю. Юренко ◽

А.И. Юренко (Кузнецова)

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Harry Potter ◽

Russian Orthodox ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Russian Orthodox Church ◽

Russian Part ◽

Chronological Change ◽

Youth Subcultures

В статье анализируется хронологическое изменение палитры мнений духовенства и мирян российской части Русской Православной Церкви по отношению к произведениям Дж. Роулинг (цикл романов о Гарри Поттере) и молодежным субкультурам, появившимся на их основе в 2002–2020 гг. В качестве источников исследования выступают высказывания православного духовенства в религиозных и светских средствах массовой информации, интервью авторов со священнослужителями, сотрудниками церковной администрации, преподавателями Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета (ПСТГУ), выпускниками и учащимися православных гимназий и воскресных школ. The article analyzes the chronological change in the palette of opinions of the clergy and laity of the Russian part of the Russian Orthodox Church in relation to the works of J.K. Rowling (a cycle of novels about Harry Potter) and the youth subcultures that emerged on their basis in 2002–2020.

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A Place for Salvation or Torture: The Image of the Russian Orthodox Church in Secular Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The monitoring of public opinion economic&social changes ◽

10.14515/monitoring.2020.6.1748 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Елизавета Валерьевна Родионова ◽

Юлия Паулевна Байер

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Regional Level ◽

Russian Orthodox ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Russian Orthodox Church ◽

Federal Level ◽

Saint Petersburg ◽

Religious Media ◽

The Media ◽

The Church

Hjarvard in his work “Mediatization and religion” noted that it is becoming increasingly difficult to control public representations of religion in the media. The difficulty is that religious media, religious journalism, and “banal religion” speak very different languages. During the pandemic, a debate broke out among believers and non-believers about whether to close churches and parishes on the quarantine period. By the decree of the Patriarch, all services in churches were to be performed without the participation of the parishioners. The secular media did not stay away the discussion either. In our study, we analyse a number of texts (articles) from three major news portals: Fontanka.ru (regional level, Saint Petersburg), the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" (Federal level) and the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" (regional level, Moscow). Articles were analysed for the period from March 15 to June 15, 2020. The main working hypothesis was the assumption that the image of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in the secular media would change depending on the actions of the Church itself during the pandemic, but in general it would be reproduced rather in a negative way. The content analysis of the data confirmed this hypothesis, both for the media and for their audience. The desire of the ROC to perform services during the pandemic was considered in the media as a wrecking activity that threatens the lives of parishioners. Also The Russian Orthodox Church in the pandemic intensified the process of digitalization of interaction with parishioners

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Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve

Ukrainian Religious Studies ◽

10.32420/2001.18.1150 ◽

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.

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