Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431329
J. Ellis
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Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431326
Coelestin Patock Osa
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Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431333
G. Davies
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Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431325
W. V. D. Bercken
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Soviet state are both preparing for the commemoration of the "Baptism of Rus' ", but they do so in different ways. The church, in her very limited publications, emphasises the great importance of this occasion for the Russian people, while the Soviet authorities use their extensive propaganda apparatus to do all they can to minimise this. An important methodological difference in their approach is that the church avoids any confrontation, and certainly expresses no criticism of the Soviet point of view, while the Soviet authors subject the church's view to a frontal attack, accusing her of using the jubilee for "propaganda". The large number and polemical character of the Soviet publications indicates that the political authorities consider the celebration of a thousand years of Christianity in Russia to be of great importance in the struggle for Russian national consciousness. By re-interpreting and annexing the past, the Soviet government wishes to represent itself as the legitimate heir of Russian history. The Russian Orthodox Church, in her turn, by accentuating her solidarity throughout the centuries with the weal and woe of the Russian nation, wishes to justify her present patriotic stance towards the ruling powers. In this . article I shall examine the publications of the Russian Orthodox Church on the millennium of Christianity in Russia. * The publications of the Russian Church on the subject are limited to a few articles in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarch ate (JMP), the only regularly-published journal of the Russian Orthodox Church; 1 a long article by Archbishop Pitirim (the jou~nal's editor-in-chief), which appeared elsewhere; 2'and a two-page introduction in the church
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Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431323
M. Heppell
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Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431327
D. Pospielovsky
It is common practice to date both Russian neo-nationalism and the Russian religious revival back to the late 1960s, when the first Russian nationalist and Orthodox Christian tracts began to appear in samizdat, sometimes jointly and at other times quite separately.· Samizdat is a good yardstick of the genuineness of a trend of thought, being free from institutionalised censorship and thus more accurate than the official" press in mirroring developments in society. Nevertheless, the printed press should not be ignored, especially those authors who are subjected to frequent party-line attacks, those who find it difficult to print their works, and those whose works are immediately bought out by their readers yet rarely see second and third printings. Here we primarily have in mind the rural writers (derevenshchikl), whose publications go back to the '60s. At first their works were marked above all by patriotic anguish for their motherland ~ Russia and its people. In their writing, the national element appeared long before a conscious discovery of the Christian "soul" of the nation as the kernel of its spiritual health. This di~covery, or at least its revelation, has been. very cautious and gddual, at first appearing almost exclusively in a cultural and . aesthetic form. In representative art, more 'and more landscapes appeared with onion-domed churches in either the background or the foreground, at first without crosses, more recently with crosses. Films with similar landscapes gradually evolved to include genuine religious themes with national-nostalgic overtones. The symbiosis of the national and the religious (together with severe national self-criticism) was particularly striking in Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev, in which
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Pub Date : 1987-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431330
J. Anderson
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Pub Date : 1987-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431307
Jonathan Luxmoore
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Pub Date : 1987-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431313
Marite Sapiets
{"title":"The anniversaries of Christianity in the Baltic republics","authors":"Marite Sapiets","doi":"10.1080/09637498708431313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09637498708431313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197393,"journal":{"name":"Religion in Communist Lands","volume":"49 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120887433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1987-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637498708431309
John R. Anderson
A resolution entitled "On strengthening the atheist education of the population" was issued by the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party in July 1971. For some reason this document, rarely quoted by Soviet writers and apparently missed by Western specialists, was not published at the time. 1 In exploring the context in which this resolution was produced, we shall be concerned with two questions: why was it issued at this time, and was it meant to herald a new campaign against religion? For five years after Krushchev's fall in October 1964, his successor Brezhnev struggled for pre-eminence within the leadership. During this period very little attention appears to have been devoted to ideological matters, and even Nauka i re/igiya (Science and Religion) could be found stressing that the key to overcoming religious prejudices was economic development. 2 Nevertheless, no-one questioned the basic premise of official ideology, that the education of the new man "presupposed his liberation from religious prejudices and other survivals of the past". 3 From about 1968, this situation changed. Reacting to events in Czechoslovakia and the start of foreign broadcasting of samizdat materials into the USSR, official pronouncements began to take on a more explicitly ideoiogical flavour. In April 1968 a Central Committee plenum called for an "uncompromising struggle with alien ideology" , 4 whilst two months later candidate Politburo member P. N. Demichev attacked imperialist propagandists who sought to undermine Soviet society by spreading values contrary to those of socialism. 5
苏联共产党中央委员会于1971年7月发表了一项题为“关于加强人口的无神论教育”的决议。由于某种原因,这份很少被苏联作家引用,而且显然被西方专家遗漏的文件,当时没有发表。1 .在探讨这项决议产生的背景时,我们将关注两个问题:为什么在这个时候发布这项决议?它是否意味着预示一场新的反宗教运动?赫鲁晓夫于1964年10月倒台后的5年里,他的继任者勃列日涅夫一直在努力争取在领导层中的卓越地位。在此期间,似乎很少注意意识形态问题,甚至可以发现《科学与宗教》也强调克服宗教偏见的关键是经济发展。然而,没有人质疑官方意识形态的基本前提,即对新人的教育“以他从宗教偏见和其他过去的残余中解放出来为前提”。大约从1968年开始,这种情况发生了变化。由于捷克斯洛伐克发生的事件以及外国开始向苏联广播地下出版物,官方声明开始带有更明确的意识形态色彩。1968年4月,中央委员会全体会议呼吁“与外来意识形态进行毫不妥协的斗争”,而两个月后,政治局委员候选人p·n·德米切夫(P. N. Demichev)攻击了那些试图通过传播与社会主义相反的价值观来破坏苏联社会的帝国主义宣传者。5
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