Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.2.148-151
A. Orishev
Thomas Bauer’s monograph “The Culture of Ambiguity and Pluralism: Towards a Different Image of Islam” (Berlin: Directmedia Publishing, 2020. 400 p.) is an absolutely new interpretation of Islam as a world religion, based on the concept of “ambiguity”, which assumes a universal ability to ambiguously interpret certain phenomena of everyday life and public life. The monograph attempts to destroy one of the most persistent stereotypes about Islam as a religion that regulates human life in detail. The author proves that for a longer period of its history, Islam was much more tolerant to the spiritual practices of believers, to their way of life. The author cites numerous information from religious texts of the 8-19th centuries, which clearly show the high tolerance of Islamic culture to polysemy. The author justifies the validity of various ways of reading the Qur’an, describing this diversity as mercy and grace. The rejection of this tolerance in Islam, according to the author, occurred in the middle of the 19th century, largely under the influence of the West, which aggressively imposed its radical ideas about the truth...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.117-125
I. S. Butov
Religious psychoses and various forms of superstition are widespread, as a rule, in the days of severe upheavals and in the times of crisis in history. One of the most common phenomena of this kind in the 19th - first half of the 20th century was the discovery of holy wells or springs, in the waters of which numerous pilgrims observed visions with images of icons and faces of saints, as well as other paintings, most often on religious or historical themes. The purpose of the study is to analyze the distinctive features and the range of narratives about a certain group of events that are considered miraculous in the folk tradition - the appearance of saints and icons in the water. It is established that a place of pilgrimage is often a symbolic sacred center of a certain area (spring, well, krinitsa, bend of the river), or a certain narrow-local territory (hospitals, houses, churches). The most susceptible categories of the population - young girls and boys, elderly widows, etc...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.126-135
Azamat ZH. Idrissov
This article studies the role of religion in the formation of new identities. Religion is presented as an alternative to secular nationalism and the revival of new religious identities as a reaction to the crisis of the secular type of nation-building. The first part of the article shows the historical background of the crisis of the theory of secularization and the “religious renaissance”, which was an attempt to return religion to public discourse. Religious identity is considered as a strict construct that is formed by certain actors using various mechanisms. The types of construction of religious identity are considered from three sides using the terms of M. Castells as the problem of “legitimizing identity”, “resistance identity” and identity as a “project”. Analyzing the role of religion in the formation of new identities the author comes to the following conclusions: 1) religion acts as a factor of legitimacy in new religious communities, where religion offers a sacred justification for power; 2) religion acts as a factor of protection of one's own identity under the wave of globalization, which acts as a hostile dominant identity; 3) the religious community acts as a separate “imagined” construct, which in the global dimension erases linguistic and ethnic boundaries, but acts as a dividing factor in local conflicts...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.5-16
A. Zabiyako
The purpose of the article is, firstly, to determine the territorial and chronological boundaries of the formation of early symbolism and early forms of religion in the basin of the Lower Amur, and secondly, to explicate early beliefs and practices in the context of modern theories of religion. The territorial boundaries of early symbolism and early forms of religion are located in the Lower Amur region within the boundaries of the distribution of the Osipovskaya and Mariinskaya archaeological cultures. These cultures belong to the Early Neolithic and are located in chronological intervals of 13,000-10,000 years ago ( Osipovskaya culture ) and 10,000-9,000 years ago ( Mariinskaya culture ). The oldest beliefs and practices archaeologically recorded in the Lower Amur region are the gender cult, zoolatry and thanatology. The gender cult is represented by its male and female varieties. Zoolatry is manifested primarily in the forms of bear cult, ichthyolatria (worship of fish) and ornitholatria (worship of birds). Thanatology reveals itself in thanatocracies - the funeral practice of inhumation of the body with the ritual use of fire and buried objects. Gender cult and zoolatry are objectified in the objects of mobile art. Thanatology is objectified in the burial complex.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.5-14
M. Shakhnovich
The article examines the study of the veneration of locally revered saints by Soviet ethnographers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The expeditions were carried out by the staff of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum, the State Academy of the History of Material Culture, the Society of Local History and the Union of Militant Atheists. Ethnographers showed interest in the study of local cults of saints, striving not so much for historical studies of the veneration of saints in Russia, as for the anthropological study of the syncretic features of the worship of saints, in which folk ideas and pre-Christian practices in the form of so-called “Orthodox paganism” were preserved to the greatest extent.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.5-17-25
I. Melnikov
The article deals with the little-studied problem of the interaction between the Russian nobility and the Old Believers in the first half of the 19th century. Cases of conversion to the “old faith” of representatives of the upper class are considered as a natural phenomenon, explained by the softening of state control over the nobility, a change in state policy regarding the “schismatics”, as well as general mystical sentiment among the Russian nobility of this period. As an example, we consider the case of a noblewoman Elizaveta Petrovna Langel, who was tonsured in Fedoseev's congregation with the name of Catherine, her spiritual father, a monk Ephrem, and the landowners Golitsyns. The unique archive documents and letters of E. Langel are introduced into scientific circulation, directly reflecting the nature of her religiosity, attitudes towards the Old Believers and the religious policy during the reign of Nikolas I. They show that the conversion to Old Belief was partly influenced by family history and the mystical religious mood of Langel. In addition, it is suggested that the presence of the noblewoman Langel in their ranks allowed the Old Believers to better interact with the landlords. This is indirectly confirmed by the patronage to the noblewoman's spiritual father, monk Ephrem, from the landowners Golitsyns.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.56-63
A. Takova
The article deals with the features of the implementation of atheistic work in one of the republics of the North Caucasus - the Kabardian ASSR in the 40s-50s of the 20th century. The main directions of implementation of this work are analyzed: 1) indirect-atheistic work using the mass media available at that time; 2) direct-work carried out by direct communication of propagandists-agitators with the audience on the ground. A general description of the features of the implementation of atheistic work in this period, the techniques and methods used for this purpose, is given. The emphasis is placed on the widespread dissemination of natural science views to the masses, together with the foundations of Marxism-Leninism, as opposed to religious ideas. The paper points out a number of key problematic issues that reduced the quality and effectiveness of the field atheist work carried out - the lack of specialists, excessive focus on mass participation, lack of targeting...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.26-33
R. Evtekhov
The article examines the everyday details of the life of the Skoptsy of the Irkutsk province in the 30s-40s of the 19th century. The study is based on information from two cases of 1832 and 1848 on the disclosure by the priests of the local parish of a secret community of the Skoptsy in the village of Golumet’. Despite the rather close attention to the topic of non-traditional religious movements, many archival materials on this topic are still not in demand. The article presents the ritual and medical aspects of the life of Skoptsy: descriptions of methods of emasculation, characteristic self-restraints in everyday life, and even individual ideological views of eunuchs. Thanks to archival materials, it was possible to determine common, characteristic features of behavior for all members of the sect, their social portrait. According to the author, their survival was of particular importance for the sect, therefore, the issue of secrecy during meetings, conversations, ritual actions was given the greatest importance...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.2.104-109
Yekaterina V. Baranova
The article retraces the “ecumenical” period of V.V. Rozanov (1856-1919), which came at the time of the late 1890s - early 1900s, outlining the philosopher’s views on Catholicism and the unionist problem. These themes, practically untouched in Russian science, were elaborated in the Catholic works within the walls of the Pontific Oriental Institute in Rome. The author introduces the texts, previously unknown to the national specialists on Rozanov. They manifest the intent to present Rozanov as an apologist of Catholicism. The grasp of meanings of the polemical writing of Rozanov’s journalism becomes an axiological guideline of the article, which otherwise leads to a shift of the accents towards the conclusions desirable for the Catholic side. The methodological guideline remains the correlation of the nature of the evolvement of the study of Rozanov’s heritage with the external revision of the unionist question and the attribution of its results to the “new theism” elaborated by the thinker. The author finds the omission of the Catholic side in ignoring the historiosofical constant of Rozanovian thought, in the light of which, the absence of a solution to the unionist problem in the frame of the current cultural paradigm becomes a surety of a different comprehension of the Universal Church.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.1.15-23
Anna A. Luneva
The article considers early Christian identity development during the 1st - 4th centuries CE. Adversus Iudaeos treatises are the main sources of knowledge about many early Christian positions. Christian writers described both themselves and the nations surrounding them in terms ἔθνος γένος, natio , populus . The term “ethnos” was important for Christian authors for dealing with inner community problems and for external relations purposes. Universal Christian doctrine did not fit any criteria of that time. Describing Christians as a “new nation” allowed them to define their place in the sociocultural system of the Greco-Roman world and to put themselves next to Greeks, Jews, and Barbarians. In the absence of a clear definition of “ethnos”, Christian authors proclaimed open borders of their “nation” and through this approach engaged new followers. Comparing themselves to Jews and abandoning all Jewish “earthly” traditions, the writers showed what was truly Christian and formed the foundations of the orthodoxy, opposed heresies and asserted that faith is the main tenet of their identity.
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