scholarly journals Early Modern Russian State, "Tsar’s Discourse" and Russian Orthodox Church in the XV-XVII Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara I. Lipich ◽  
Vasiliy V. Lipich ◽  
Tatiana M. Penskaya ◽  
Vitaly V. Penskoy ◽  
Roman V. Shilishpanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Modern Russian

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.

Attempts to Restore the Institution of Deaconess at the end of the Synodal Period and Possible Actualization in the Modern Russian Church

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Андрей Александрович Зотин
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Russian

В трудах Е. Е. Голубинского и С. В. Троицкого есть размышления о просфирнях как о воз можных преемницах диаконисс. В этом контексте представляется интересным проанализировать гипотезы Е. Е. Голубинского и С. В. Троицкого относительно преемства русских просфирен и византийских диаконисс, и в свете новых открывшихся данных попытать ся определить возможную вероятность гипотезы. Помимо этого в Русской Церкви не однократно предпринимались попытки возрождения этого древнего чина, что в свою очередь наталкивает на соображения относительно возможного восстановления института диаконисс в Русской Церкви сегодня. Открывается перспектива для размышлений o том, нужен ли древний институт Русской Церкви, какими возможными функциями можно наделить их представительниц и есть ли место для диаконис в иерархической устройстве Русской Церкви. В статье - с учётом современных канонических и литургических исследований - анализируются гипотезы Е. Е. Голубинского и С. В. Троицкого, затем, на основании краткого рассмотрения истории чина диаконисс в Древней Церкви и освещения попыток восстановления института служительниц в конце Синодального периода, автором предлагаются возможные канонические границы служения диаконисс в современной Русской Православной Церкви. Based on a brief review of the history of the rite of deaconesses in the ancient Church and coverage of attempts to restore the institution of ministers at the end of the Synodal period, the author suggests possible canonical boundaries of the ministry of deaconesses in the modern Russian Orthodox Church.

scholarly journals The Economy of the Temples of God in the Turmoil of Changing Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detelina Tocheva
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Moral Valence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe liberalisation of religious practice after the fall of the Soviet regime and the support by the Russian state to the Russian Orthodox Church have contributed to the enormous growth of the church economy. Controversies within and without the Church interrogate commercial and gifting practices. The relationship between the expansion of church commerce and the operation of moral boundaries, underlined by critical stances, has been determined by culture and history, with the post-Soviet transformation having played a key role in shaping popular notions of selflessness and profit-seeking. Moreover, as people participate in the church economy they mobilise perceptions of the differential moral valence of gift and commerce in order to communicate concerning the power of the Church, its controversial image, Russia’s social stratification, and to deploy ethics of equity and honesty.

scholarly journals Archival sources of the Russian Orthodox Church missionary activity history among the old believers of the Orenburg diocese of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-253
Author(s):  
Alina Dzhanarovna Kamzina
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Archival Documents

The historical period considered in this paper is one of the important periods for the economic, political and spiritual development of the Russian state. The Orenburg Region at this stage was a multi-confessional region, where, despite the leading role of the Russian Orthodox Church, both non-Christian and Christian denominations, including a variety of old believers consent and sectarianism, were spread. In this regard, the anti-sectarian missionary activity of the official Orthodoxy aimed at both the old believers and sectarians became particularly relevant. Archival documents in the collections of Federal and regional archives form the basis of this problem study. The paper presents an overview of unpublished sources and their source analysis. The author analyses such groups of archival sources as statistical materials, records of management sources, among which a special place is occupied by the Governors and diocesan reports, documents of personal origin, legislative materials. Among these groups of sources, the most valuable ones are records of civil and spiritual departments. The review allows to conclude about the variety of types of archival documents and their various informative features. The presented classification is not final and can be supplemented.

scholarly journals The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Formation Family Policy of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
Tamara K. Rostovskaya ◽  
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Alexander M. Egorychev ◽  
Irina A. Shapovalova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
History Of

The real problem is associated with the history of the development of the Russian state and society, the institution of the family. The study showed that the Russian Orthodox Church, its spiritual and moral teaching concerning the person, family and family relations, had a greater impact on the formation, development and preservation of the value foundations of the traditional Russian family. The study made it possible to formulate the provisions regarding the development of modern family policy in Russia, the need to take into account in it the historical socio-philosophical and sociocultural foundations of the life of the Russian people, those Orthodox spiritual and moral bonds that underlie the traditional large Russian family.

scholarly journals Intercultural Communication: Russian Orthodox Church in Yakutia (XVII–XIX Centuries)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-386
Author(s):  
I. I. Yurganova
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
North East ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Long Time

The research featured the issue of intercultural communication in the aspect of cultural and anthropological approach. The article introduces the case of the Russian Orthodox Church as it incorporated one of the remote outskirts of the Empire the Yakut region in Russia. The research was an attempt to understand the problems of intercultural communication during the intercivilizational interaction between the Orthodox (Christian) civilization and the local Arctic civilization of the peoples of North-East Asia. The author explained the permanent process of Christianization in Yakutia, as well as described the role of missionary work as a method of developing new territories and the specifics of parish activity. The relations with the nonOrthodox population improved when the state law replaced the traditional Patriarchal foundations, and representatives of non-Slavic elites entered the structure. The Orthodox Church conducted various social and educational activities, since it took secular social and educational state institutions a long time to reach this remote region. In the XVII–XIX centuries, the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in Yakutia contributed to the intercultural communications with this marginal territory and ensured the involvement of the Yakut ethnic group in the Russian state space.

scholarly journals Foreign Orthodox Churches (Based on Materials from the Archive of the Office of the Holy Synod)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
N.V. Shvarts
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Archival Documents

The article is an overview of documents stored in the fund 796 - the Office of the Synod. This is one of the most significant funds of the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA), which makes it possible to more fully study the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. This article presents an analysis of only one inventory - 143 for 1862. This is the year of the first trip of F.M. Dostoevsky abroad. The trip lasted from June 7 to August 24, and during these months, along with many European cities, the writer will visit Turin, Florence, Milan, Venice. Italy occupies a special place in F.M. Dostoevsky. The writer visited this country three times, and each of the travels was significant in its own way for Fyodor Mikhailovich. But it should not be denied that the impressions received by the writer in other countries undoubtedly shaped his opinions, which were subsequently reflected in the series of essays "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions." Events and possible meetings of F.M. Dostoevsky with compatriots living abroad or traveling will become more understandable when studying archival documents.

scholarly journals Троице-Сергиев монастырь: вклады русских государей

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Ростислав Ярема ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

This article reveals the contribution of the Kingdom to the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra through the prism of personal relations between the Orthodox Church and the highest state authorities, and thus reveals the role of the Emperors and the Church in the history of Russian art, as well as in the preservation of Russian national culture and identity. Russian monarchs’ pilgrimage and contribution to the monastery of St. Sergius of Radonezh is considered an important factor in strengthening ties between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Monarchy, as well as the entire Russian society, supporting its national idea. Russian art was formed in the spiritual paradigm of Christianity, immediately after the adoption of the unified faith (unity of faith) up to the seventeenth century. The analysis of gifts and contributions, as well as their artistic value, allows to conclude that the contributions of the sovereigns constitute the summit of achievements of modern Russian art culture. From this point of view, the Church, in particular the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra, against the background of known political upheavals in the country in the twentieth century, became the keeper of an invaluable cultural and artistic treasury and spiritual core of Great Russia, showing not only a model of serving the Orthodoxy, its people and country, but also a saving perspective for the Russian State of historical survival in the new epoch.

VAN PROKHANOV’S CRITICISM OF THE MOSCOW CAESAROPAPISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
N. Maryukhno ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Spiritual Freedom ◽  
The Church

The article examines the socio-political theology of Ivan Prokhanov as a prominent Russian religious and social figure of the early twentieth century, chairman of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians. His critique of the сaesaropapism as structure in the Russian state-church relations of the imperial period is studied. It is proved that Ivan Prokhanov sharply denounced the negative manifestations of caesaropapism, and above all the resistance of the Russian Orthodox Church to constructive reform in accordance with Christian evangelical values. The positions on the church-religious life of the evangelical theologian Ivan Prokhanov and the Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the leader of the reactionary resistance to any changes, the ideologue of the counter-reforms Alexander III, were compared. In his sharp critique of caesaropapism, he relied on the Christian doctrine of man and society, believing that the legal precondition for overcoming its negative consequences was the separation of church and state, and the need for evangelical awakening of the Russian Orthodox people to gain spiritual freedom.

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