scholarly journals Russian history in “Lives of the Saints” of St. Dimitry of Rostov

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-130
Author(s):  
Victoria Vladimirovna Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

The subject of this research is the largest printed compilation of the lives of the saints venerated by the Russian Orthodox Church – “Lives of the Saints” by St. Dimitry of Rostov (1689-1705). Despite a widespread opinion that the only printed book on the Russian history until the middle of the XVIII century was the “Synopsis” by Innokenty Gizel, the author refers to “Lives of the Saints” as a landmark of historical writing that reflects crucial events in the Russian history from ancient times until early XVIII century. Traditionally viewed as a literary and hagiographical landmark, “Lives of the Saints” by St. Dimitri Rostov were out of the scope for the researchers of Russian historiography. This article is the first to conduct comprehensive analysis of historical records contained in the lives of Russian saints as part of the compilation “Live of the Saints”. Emphasis is places on the representation of events of the past. The research demonstrates that “Lives of the Saints” included descriptions of the milestones in Church and political history. Featuring certain aspect of scientific writings (accuracy of dates, critical analysis of sources, reference apparatus), they conveyed a special, Christian perception of Russian history as a chain of miracles of the saints and the Virgin Mary. The conclusion is made on the considerable importance of “Lives of the Saints” in proliferation of information on the Russian past among broad population, and formation of historical memory of the Russian society of the XVIII – XIX centuries.

Practice of Awarding the Clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church with Liturgical Awards in the XIX-early XX century

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
Алексей Андреевич Рудченко
Keyword(s):  
Initial System ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
International Award

В данной статье рассматривается порядок поощрения священнослужителей Русской Православной Церкви иерархическими наградами в XIX - начале XX в. Цель исследования - проанализировать процесс установления и механизм развития наградной системы в обозначенный период. Для этого изучаются характеристики каждой из наград, официально установленных императором Павлом I и его последователями. Внимание читателя статьи обращается главным образом на обстоятельства появления отдельной богослужебной награды в практике Русской Православной Церкви и условия награждения ею заслуженных клириков. В качестве наглядного примера рассматриваются выразительные случаи награждения некоторых священнослужителей. Изучение устройства начальной системы богослужебных наград клириков Русской Православной Церкви позволило прийти к выводу, что появившаяся в конце XVIII в. наградная система на протяжении последующего столетия претерпевала различные изменения: дополнялась и структурировалась. За это время в наградной практике появлялись новые и упразднялись старые награды, был выработан междунаградной срок и установлен порядок награждения священников во время богослужения. This publication examines the procedure for encouraging the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church with hierarchical awards in the XIX-early XX centuries. Тhe purpose of the study is to analyze the process of establishing and developing the award system in this period. We study the characteristics of each of the awards officially established by Emperor Paul I and his followers. The reader’s attention is mainly drawn to the circumstances of the appearance a separate liturgical award in the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church and the conditions for awarding it to distinguished clerics. As a clear example, we consider the expressive cases of awarding certain clergy. The study of the initial system of liturgical awards for clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church allowed us to conclude that the award system that appeared at the end of the XVIII century underwent various changes over the next century: it was supplemented and structured. During this time, new awards appeared in the award practice and old awards were abolished, an international award period was developed and the procedure for awarding priests during divine services was established.

scholarly journals SOCIO-CULTURAL INTERACTION FORMS OF CHURCH AND STATE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Evguenia Alexandrovna Belyaeva ◽  
Elena Aleksandrovna Venidiktova ◽  
Dilbar Valievna Shamsutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Church

Purpose: the aim of the undertaken study is to consider the dynamics of the church-state relationship in the context of Russian new cultural tendencies at the turn of the century. Methodology: Thus, The methodological basis of the research was formed by philosophical analysis of the church-state relationship, historicism and comparison principles. The following tasks were being solved: defining the interaction ways between the religious organizations and the state on the modern stage of the Russian society development; pointing out the prospects of consolidation of both the сhurch and the state around the democratic civil society fostering program in XXI century; revealing the need to promote respectful attitude towards human values as an integral part of spiritual culture. Result: The authors achieved the following results within the study: A wider notions of church and state were introduced demonstrating the similarity of some of their functions: offering moral guidance for social well-being; historic doctrinal models “caesaropapism”, “papocaesarism” and “symphony(concordance) of powers” were identified and characterized alongside with their secular counterparts - separation and cooperation models of church-state relationship. In conclusion of the article the urgent need for the transition of church-state relationship from political to social and cultural spheres was justified. Applications: This research can be used for the universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: In this research, the model of Socio-Cultural Interaction Forms of Church and State on the Example of the Russian Orthodox Church is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

Caesaropapism and Secularism in the Byzantine and Russian Tradition

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Michael A. Eldin ◽  
Sergey I. Malozemov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Research Problems

Introduction. The role of Orthodox confessional heritage and the analysis of social traditions of the Balkan and Russian peoples are considered in the generalizing characteristic of the spiritual creations of the thinkers of Rus and Russia. The multidirectional tendencies of anti-clerical forces on the one hand, and of the Church community on the other, indicate that the topic of secularization of Russian society has not received an actual resolution. The purpose of the article is to examine the understanding of the processes of caesaropapism and secularism in Russian society, as well as the historiosophical and methodological consequences of this understanding. Materials and Methods. An integrative approach combined with historical-methodological and philosophical-historical analysis is considered as a theoretical and methodological research strategy. The solution of research problems was provided by a complex of complementary theoretical (analysis of scientific, historical literature, journalistic research on the problem under study, comparative analysis of texts, comparison, generalization) and empirical (study and generalization of normative and legal documents of the concepts of caesaropapism and secularism) methods. Results. The considered model of understanding secularization and secularism in the realities of Russian history indicates the secondary, borrowed nature of these concepts. According to the authors, the Decrees of the Byzantine emperors, acts of the Council of people’s Commissars “On the separation of Church from state and Church from school” did not meet the expectations of the participants of the local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, who expressed their aspirations in the document “on the legal status of the Russian Orthodox Church”. Discussion and Conclusion. The expected effect of the actual understanding of the processes can be a well-built model of state-Church relations, which can only appear if the diverse interests of the actors of modern state-religious policy in Russia are balanced. The proposed provisions and conclusions create prerequisites for further study of the phenomena of secularism and secularization in the design of the state-religious landscape of the near future.

Academic E. E. Golubinsky in the interior of the era

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Andrey Solovev
Keyword(s):  
Practical Importance ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Imperial Academy ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

E. E. Golubinsky, one of the most prominent natives of the Kostroma land, the largest historian of the Russian Orthodox Church, the first of the professors of the Moscow Theological Academy, elected as an ordinary academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Through the prism of the milestones of the historian’s biography, the article examines the general trends in the socio-cultural development of Russia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries The specific features in the culture of everyday life of the Orthodox clergy are analyzed, the problem field of church educational institutions is structured, the portrait characteristic of the theological and academic corporation is personalized, its role in the historical and cultural development of Russian society is revealed. The amazing fate of E. E. Golubinsky, his intellectual honesty, commitment to the religious, moral and institutional reorganization of the historical church are updated in the context of contemporary problems of Russian education and society as a whole. The problematic connotations in the development of theological and academic corporations are revealed — the lack of a single intellectual and spiritual space in their coexistence, a certain disconnectedness of their position in the socio-cultural development of society, the need to deepen their interaction with representatives of secular intelligentsia. The necessary consequence of the synergy of scientific knowledge and spiritual faith is the construction of the Orthodox philosophy of history, which in the context of the crisis that is being experienced today, essential discourse is of practical importance in the inevitability of dialogue and the inevitability of creative transformation of personality in the modern world.

THE VALUE OF RUSSIAN INSTITUTION OF ELDERS IN MATTERS OF CORRECTION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN RUSSIA IN XIX - EARLY XX CENTURY

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 252-258
Author(s):  
Матвеева ◽  
Evgeniya Matveeva
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The World ◽  
The Masses

The article analyzes the changes in the spiritual, moral and religious climate in Russian society in XIX - early XX century. The peculiarities of national modernization, that predetermined the gradual destruction of the traditional patriarchal way of life of the masses, are revealed; they led to the transformation of the world towards its secularization. The underlying problems of "religious ignorance" of a large part of the Orthodox population of the central part of Russia are determined, which are expressed in a large number of superstitions, prejudices and heresies incompatible with the official teaching. The crisis of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is characterized, which is expressed in the rapid numerical growth of the various sects, strengthening of the Old Believer communities, the development of free God-seeking and spreading atheism. The pedagogical foundations of Russian Institute of elders are considered in the article, which determine certain anthropological strategy for Russia and are based not only on legal laws, but also on spiritual and moral primordial. Great importance is paid to the justification of the role of the institutions of elders in matters of correction of juvenile offenders.

The Author of Poslanie Mnogoslovnoe: A Fontological Inquiry

Slavic Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-636
Author(s):  
Nancy Yanoshak
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Interpretive Study ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
Source Of Information

Poslanie mnogoslovnoe, an example of Muscovite antiheretical polemics, can be analyzed to add to our substantive knowledge of pre-Petrine Russian history and perhaps to refine our methodological tools for a critical evaluation of the sources for this period. Poslanie has long been regarded as a principal source of information about the life and ideas of its presumed author, the midsixteenth century Novgorodian monk Zinovii Otenskii, whose accomplishments as a theologian and publicist of the medieval Russian Orthodox church have traditionally been ranked only behind those of Iosif Volotskii and Maksim Grek. In conjunction with Zinovii's Istiny pokazanie, Poslanie provides our only detailed exposition of the teachings of the runaway slave Feodosii Kosoi, whose alleged criticisms of state and church constitute the most extreme rejection of the established order articulated in medieval Muscovy. In addition to its value for the interpretive study of Russian religious and intellectual history, Poslanie presents us with a methodological problem typical of early Russian documents: The work is anonymous and undated, and basic questions about its authorship, time of composition, and provenance have not been satisfactorily answered. The lack of information on either Zinovii or Kosoi and the contradictions in the pictures of both Zinovii and his heretical opponents presented in Poslanie, Istiny, and other, less detailed works, attributed to the monk, make solving these problems all the more interesting

scholarly journals Archbishop Irinej and Governor-General Lawinski: The Path to Confrontation between the Secular and Spiritual Authorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
I. L. Dameshek ◽  
◽  
A. P. Sannikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Outlying Regions ◽  
The Church

The institute of governor-general authorities is one of the most important political institutes of imperial Russia. Its importance in the country's outlying territories was exceptional. At the same time, the importance of the Russian Orthodox Church in the outlying regions of the country was also significant. The Church promoted the integration of the country's outlying territories into a single imperial framework. Unfortunately, in world and Russian history there have been numerous instances of confrontation between secular and spiritual authorities. These confrontations often led to open conflicts. An example of this is the confrontation between the governor-general of Eastern Siberia Lawinski A.S., and Irkutsk Archbishop Irinej, discussed in this article.

scholarly journals Corruption as Shared Culpability: Religion, Family, and Society in Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan (2014)

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Hristova
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Activist Groups

This article engages in close analysis of how Andrey Zvyagintsev depicts corruption and its various manifestations: moral, familial, societal, and institutional, in Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). While other post-Soviet films address the problem of prevalent corruption in Russia, Zvyagintsev’s work is the first to provoke strong public reactions, not only from government and Russian Orthodox Church officials, but also from Orthodox and political activist groups. The film demonstrates that the instances of legal and moral failings in one aspect of existence are a sign of a much deeper and wider-ranging problem that affects all other spheres of human experience. By elevating corruption from a well-known and accepted mundane problem to a religio-philosophical one, Leviathan creates a sense of shared culpability that underpins contemporary Russian society.

scholarly journals ANTIRELIGIOUS WORK WITH WOMEN IN THE 1920S AND THE FEMINIZATION PROCESSES IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (BASED ON SIBERIAN MATERIALS)

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
MARIA V. VASEKHA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Massive Resistance ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Female Population ◽  
General Practices ◽  
Separate Line ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Church

The paper analyzes one of the aspects of the comprehensive post-revolutionary Soviet policy for the “emancipation of women” - anti-religious work among the female population, which was closely intertwined with the general practices of militant atheism and anti-religious work among the population. However, in the author's opinion, working with women was a separate line of efforts of early Soviet cultural traders that required special consideration. The struggle against the church, faith and believers occupied one of the central places in the general policy of modernization of the country according to the Soviet type, and it was the high level of religiosity, mainly of the female population, that seemed to be the biggest obstacle on the way of building a godless New society. If such work as the creation of institutions of motherhood and infancy, women's educational program, the involvement of women in Soviet social life, despite massive resistance, found at least any response among certain segments of the population, then a campaign to seize church values, persecution of clergy, attempts to undermine Orthodox axiological basis for the existence of Russian society was caused only by persistent negativism and tough opposition from the population, primarily women...

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