Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2073-7203-2018-36-4-30-57
William D. Cohan
This article discusses the phenomena of ecumenism, anti-ecumenism, and conservative ecumenism. The author sets two goals. The first is to identify the theological foundations of ecumenism and anti-ecu-menism, and also to analyze conservative ecumenism in this research perspective. The second is to identify the political component of these phenomena. The author analyzes and criticizes the concept of “ecumenical consciousness” proposed by Andrey Shishkov. He gives his own definition of ecumenism, which includes the hope for the restoration of Christian unity as a fundamental component. From the point of view of the author, conservative ecumenism can be called ecumenism only if it contains an element associated with the quest for unity.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2311-3448-2019-6-2-74-99
V. Aksenov
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2311-3448-2019-6-1-86-104
Pavel Khodzinslii
In this article I consider the genesis and the substantial characteristics of the concept of “New Theology,” which has become a commonplace in the Russian theological tradition since the end of the 19th century. Initially this term was applied to lay theologians — particularly, to Khomiakov — but afterward was applied to academic scholars as well, such as metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky, V.I. Nesmelov, et al. Research shows that in the first decades of the 20th century these authors’ works met with a mixed reception: from very enthusiastic support (e.g., Archbishop Hilarion Troitsky) to strong critique and opposition (e.g., Bishop Viktor Ostrovidov). Later Archpriest Georges Florovsky attempted to give an objective characterization of this theological movement. He defined it as a theology coming not from Revelation but from human experience. The analysis undertaken in this article revealed another significant characteristic of “New Theology,” which is its continuity with the ideas and methodology of the lay theologians on the basis of the principle of confessionalization.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2073-7203-2019-37-4-19-44
Danila Rygovskiy
The paper discusses an ambivalent interaction between Chasovennye Old Believers of Yenisei region and modern technologies. Old Believers must rely on certain technologies and equipment for survival in the severe conditions of taiga and mountains. Nevertheless, technology is strongly associated with Antichrist and signifies his imminent arrival. The paper is focused on the intensity of usage of certain technological devices by the Old Believers, and how these devices are interpreted in eschatological terms. Technical specifications of various devices therefore serve as mediators in expressing religious emotions and experience.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2311-3448-2019-6-2-29-49
E. Khonineva
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2311-3448-2020-7-2-4-23
A. Panchenko
One important aspect of religious practices and representations concerns the way information is handled. This article understands religion as a form of imagination, giving human properties to “nonhuman” agents (and vice versa), and thus, the rules of communication and interaction with such agents play a special role in religious culture. Webb Keane’s theory of “semiotic ideologies” is one tool that facilitates the study of religious norms, expectations, and rules. In New Age culture, practices of “information exchange” with imaginary superhuman agents and transpersonal forces are based on specific psychophysical techniques, often called “channeling” or “contact.” The analysis of specific ethnographic examples related to ufological channeling demonstrates that this practice forms new types of collective agency, a distinctive feature of New Age culture itself.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2073-7203-2020-38-2-377-406
E. Stepanova
This article discusses Tolstoy’s faith in the unity of its two aspects: as the state of mind of its carrier and in terms of its content and the life principles that flow from it. It is shown that at the same time and in the same respect Tolstoy was the bearer of the faith and its investigator; therefore, its adequate interpretation is possible only if the principles established by him for himself are taken into account instead of an abstract and outward interpretation of what faith should be. The article considers, first, Tolstoy’s explanation of faith in various works, letters, diaries, and the like during the last thirty years of his life; and second, his distinctive expressions of faith along with discussions of it. The article demonstrates the equivalence of Tolstoy’s state of mind and the content of his faith, as well as its purely individual character. The study concludes with a discussion of the significance of Tolstoy’s understanding of faith for us today.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2311-3448-2020-7-1-67-90
L. Moyzhes
This article deals with the religious, specifically Christian, message in the video game “Dragon Age: Inquisition,” released in 2014 by BioWare. In order to understand the specifics of this game, the article in-cludes a detailed analysis of the conventional ways that religion, gods, and believers are presented in computer role-playing games (RPGs), the genre to which “Dragon Age: Inquisition” belongs. The study pays special attention to the way “Dragon Age: Inquisition” utilizes a common set of narrative techniques and game mechanics often present in the games of this genre. While borrowing many of them, the developers change them in small but significant ways. In doing so they manage to create a unique approach to the representation of religion that is shaped profoundly by secular ideology, which dominates the genre. This allows us to call “Dragon Age: Inquisition” a postsecular video game that adapts many traditional Christian narratives and conflicts to a new and unaccustomed medium.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2311-3448-2019-6-1-65-85
Dmitrii Bratkin
study of the New Testament and early Christianity anticipated a turn that would become mainstream in the latter half of the 20th century. univer-sal. assimilated religious one of the Greek the attitude of the Pharisees toward Jesus Christ is drawn in the wrong light. [. . .] The attitude of the Pharisees toward Christ was undoubtedly amicable, and . . . His teaching in no way contradicts the teaching of the best and most noble men of the Jewish people. German theologians, however, distorted and interpreted in the worst light everything found in the Synoptic Gospels in favor of this view; they even interpreted the Pharisees’ friendly warning to Christ about the danger threatening him from His enemies as a hostile action against him. [. . .] There never were fundamental points of contention between Christ and the Phari‑ sees [emphasis mine — D.B.]; there were only minor disagreements, like those that have occurred by the hundreds, even thousands, among rabbis of all time (Khvol’son 1911, 16–18).
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