Christmas and Revolution

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION Journal of Religion in Europe Pub Date : 2022-07-18 DOI:10.1163/18748929-bja10070
Oleh Melnychenko
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The discourse of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity (2013–2014) abundantly adopted religious themes. In my article, I show how the theme of Christmas, with its specific images and vocabulary, has been used in the rhetoric of the participants of the Revolution. In three sections, I demonstrate the three lines in which the protesters, speakers, and commenters drew parallels between the course of the Revolution and the Nativity story. These lines are the birth of Christ, the persecutions of Herod, and the Bethlehem infanticide. Finally, I show how the protesters killed at the end of the Revolution are represented in the post-Maidan discourse as national saints. I devote special attention to the Christmas play called Vertep, performed on the Maidan scene in the winter of 2013–2014, because it most fully embraces the link between these lines and the Revolution. The results of the study are intended to contribute to a better understanding of both phenomena: the Revolution of Dignity as an event, influenced by religion, and the Ukrainian Christmas tradition as a flexible and ever-renewable source for the conceptualization of social reality.
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圣诞节与革命
乌克兰尊严革命(2013-2014)的论述大量采用了宗教主题。在我的文章中,我展示了圣诞节的主题及其特定的图像和词汇是如何被用于革命参与者的修辞中的。在三个部分中,我展示了抗议者、演讲者和评论者将革命进程和耶稣诞生故事相提并论的三句话。这些台词是基督的诞生,希律的迫害,伯利恒的杀婴。最后,我展示了在革命结束时被杀害的抗议者是如何在后迈丹话语中被视为民族圣人的。我特别关注2013年至2014年冬天在迈丹演出的圣诞剧《顶点》,因为它最充分地体现了这些台词与革命之间的联系。这项研究的结果旨在有助于更好地理解这两种现象:受宗教影响的尊严革命,以及作为社会现实概念化的灵活和不断可再生来源的乌克兰圣诞节传统。
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期刊介绍: The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved.
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