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Проблематика ритуала литијског опхода у светлу новијих истраживања

Author(s): Ivica Todorović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

The ceremonial act of procession - before its banning subsequent to World War II - was widespread on the Serbian ethnic territory as one of the most important rituals. This phenomenon features a whole range of exceptionally interesting characteristics which have never been scientifically investigated: from the specific ways of structuring the ritual procession path to the intricate mythical complex accompanying the ritual. The results of years-long research of this phenomenon point to its multi-layered semantic and structural makeup. The contemplated ritual may therefore be used as a key in solving numerous dilemmas relating, on the one hand, to the research of the Serbian folk religion, and, on the other, to the research of the mythical/ritual systems structure in general. The function of the procession ritual was to provide a tight social unity of the rural community and favourable weather conditions for a fertile year. On the semantic plane, this ritual is exceptionally complex, with a number of connotation levels which all together make up a unique mythic-ritual text. In terms of mythological analysis, the most significant mythical determinants to be singled out here are the magic circle, the sacred trees, and the lord o f the weather, with a deeper mythological layer relating to the global cycle of annual folkways. Also met with in this ritual are the elements of diverse cults (agricultural, solar, vegetational, ancestor worship, etc.). Structural and semantic analyses of the procession ritual have revealed a spectrum of syntagmatic expressions and paradigmatic possibilities of the analyzed phenomenon, with an emphasis on specific patterns observed in the most intricate manifestations of the procession ritual - similar or identical to the patterns noted (in previous research) within the framework of heterogeneous linguistic, logical, mythical and ritualistic models. This scholarly approach is congruous with a hypothesis on the existence of homologous structural patterns, tentatively called patterns of the primary structure of thinking of universal character - revealed in diverse spheres of culture and nature.

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Раннохристиянски мъченици, от които, според житията, изтича "мляко вместо кръв"

Author(s): Eva Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the present study, there are 40 saints, whose lives describe that in their martyrdom death from the wounds of their bodies, and especially when their heads were cut off, milk was flowing instead of blood. Of the presented cases, 20 are women and 20 are men of different age. As described in the vitae, it is established that they lived between the 1-4 century, which coincided with the early Christian period, but there are also three exceptions of the martyrs of the 5th, 7th and 11th centuries. Regarding the localization of the described phenomenon, it was found that the saints originated from different geographic areas – in the East from Palestine and Tyre (present-day Lebanon), in North Africa - on the lands of today's Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, in various regions of Asia Minor, The Balkan Peninsula (particularly on the territory of today's Bulgaria and Greece) and West to Gaul (in particular Italy, France and Belgium). In general, the explanation given in the present study of the miracle of milk is that it is a sign of their holiness and their heavenly change already on the earth.

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An Alevi Concert Event in Paris: Doğa Aşkına – Terre, Mon Amour

Author(s): Sinibaldo de Rosa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Rather than a legal recognition as religion, Alevism in France has been pursuing a public type of commitment that is different from the past and from elsewhere. The Franco-Alevi novelty presented here reveals important peculiarities that differ from common academic representations of Alevism in Turkey as well as in European articulations. Such a peculiarity relies mostly in an endorsed public collaboration of the federation of French Alevi associations (FUAF) with ecologist organizations operating in France as well as in Turkey. Such collaboration was achieved thanks to the adoption of an environmental discourse overshadowing canonical framings of Alevism as an oppositional and secretive religious movement. Focusing on a specific event as an ethnographic case study, in this paper I wish to highlight the ‘permeable’ character of Alevism in this recent French articulation. The public collaboration of the Alevis in France with ecologist associations and their embracing of an environmental discourse resonate with Ruth Mandel’s expectations over contemporary and cosmopolitan Alevi experiences.

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Diasporadan Alevilerle İşçi Sınıfını “Musahip” Yapma Çabası: Kavga/Kervan Dergilerinde Alevilik

Author(s): Tuncay Bilecen / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Son yıllarda sosyal bilimler alanında Aleviliğe yönelik büyük bir ilgi var, bu konuyu çeşitli boyutlarıyla ele alan çalışmalarda adeta bir literatür patlaması yaşanıyor. Aleviliğe yönelik bu artan ilgiyi açıklamak için siyasal, konjonktürel ve uluslararası pek çok neden sıralamak mümkün. Nitekim Alevi hareketinin örgütlenmesinde hem ulusal hem de uluslararası etkiler mevcuttur.

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The Alevi Youth in the German Diaspora

Author(s): Deniz Coşan Eke / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The migrant’s identity construction is a salient theme in the public and political integration debate in Germany as well as in other European countries. The Alevi community faces a variety of specific challenges in transnational space, such as the protection of its identity and the recognition of its cultural and religious differences. For Alevis, the prospect of being recognized both as a religious and cultural group and an immigrant group in Germany has created a growing social and political movement and a diaspora to Germany. Consequently, after more than 50 years, the children of Alevi migrants to Germany, especially of third generation, are starting to grow up in a transnational context within a diasporic consciousness.

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Религиозный компонент в образовании инофонов: от формирования фоновых знаний к формированию фоновой эрудиции

Author(s): Tatyana Arkadieva,Svetlana Vladimirova,Konstantin Pshenko,Nadezhda Fedotova,Tatyana Sharry / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article reveals the problem of the religious aspect in the process of the education of the foreign-students. The theoretical and methodological aspects of the foreign students are actively updated; although we researched these aspects through the acquisition of the general knowledge by the students from the RFL department. The article also shows the linguistic and extra linguistic components, that have their demonstration of the cultural values and religious attitudes of the people.

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Опыт реализации курса "Основы религиозной культуры и светской этики" в начальной школе России

Author(s): Svetlana Kotova,Liudmila Savinova / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to the description of the history of the working-out and introduction of the course " Religion or Ethics" in Russian primary education. The main ideas of the course, the first results of teaching, the difficulties of its implementation and prospects for further development are presented.

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Роль и место "Этнокалендаря Санкт-Петербурга" в оформлении религиозной толерантности будущий учителей начальной школы

Author(s): Eleonora Onishchenko / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to the assessment of the importance for the professional development of the future teacher of the need to form the foundations of religious tolerance. The role and place of the innovative Russian project «Ethno-Calendar of St. Petersburg» as an effective means of improving the quality of modern higher pedagogical education are presented. «Ethno-calendar» is considered in the context of future primary school teachers studying the course «Educational space of St. Petersburg», based on the experience of its testing in the Institute of childhood of Pedagogical University A. I. Herzen (St. Petersburg)

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Архангелският култ в стенописите на храм-паметника "Св. Александър Невски" - традиции и нововъведения

Author(s): Totka Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the pictorial language of the church fresco there are many changes in the various historical periods. The changes in the conceptual content and in the iconographic program of the late 19th and early 20th century show a change in the attitude towards ecclesiastical art. In essence, this involves the extending of range of the themes and stories that are no longer so closely bound up with liturgical action. In the multiple depictions of angels and archangels, an attempt can be found for compensating the stray of art from its main purpose. Most of the portrayed archangels images are representatives of the modern compositions of those times brought by the Russian artists who worked in the monument temple.

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Някои убеждения, свързани с пространството и облика на православния (съвременен) храм като резултат от теоретичен и образователен пропуск

Author(s): Lenko Grigorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article focuses on some widespread assumptions about the historical development and contemporary state of the orthodox church architecture regarding the types of churches according to the space of the naos, as well as the hierarchy of the individual elements and characteristics that the temple contains.

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Иконата в религиозното образование: традиции и съвременност

Author(s): Tatyana Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The Orthodox Icon is an indivisible part of Orthodoxy today. Already in ancient times, it appeared in Christianity to show „what the Church believes“. As well as the icons are/were mediators of the prayers of the believers they were also used as a visual catechism – to clarify the Christian faith, to educate Christian values, to reveal the path to salvation. Today, in the multicultural and multireligious Europe, the icon is a symbol of the Orthodoxy and its defender. The holy images are an antipod of the dissipating effect of the mass media. In religion classes, the icon affects both the rational level by the narrative and the clarification, as well as the spiritual level. Through its symbolic language, schema and specificity, the icon helps prayer rise to the eternal and the celestial, becomes the meeting place between the material and the spiritual.

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Конкурсите за рисунка на християнска тематика в помощ на православното религиозно възпитание

Author(s): Nikolinka Klimukova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Today we are looking for new means of joining the Christian faith. Contests for painting Christian themes are the occasion for children, parents and teachers to go to the church. Children like painting and participating in events of competitive and creative character. Contests are the occasion to get acquainted with eastern Orthodox feasts, children, their parents and teachers, and a way of catehisation. To meet the conditions for participation, they read literature, follow models of Christian art, visit the church. Award ceremonies, exhibitions and celebrations take place in the church and in the educational centers. Consequently, Christianity Drawing Contests are in favor of Orthodox religious upbringing.

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Изучаването на история на музикалното изкуство - път към християнското духовно богатство

Author(s): Antonia Baleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In this text, the attitude of music-religion is subordinated to the idea of integrating the religious themes into the educational process of music history. In a broad interdisciplinary framework, some philosophical-aesthetic, cultural, sociological, psychological aspects of the problem are affected, as deliberately sought distance from purely theological and accent on the general culture.

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Значението на Петър Динев за обучението по църковна музика в България

Author(s): Julian Kujumdzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This paper is dedicated to Petar Dinev's contribution to church music education in Bulgaria. Raised in traditions and Eastern singing, and Western European music, Dinev strives to achieve a synthesis between these two traditions both in his liturgical works and in his pedagogical work. This idea Dinev develops in his pedagogical activity and in his tools the beginning of the introduction of the Bulgarian church music in the academic practice and its establishment in a separate scientific and educational field in the Bulgarian musicology.

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The Impact of Apocryphal Sources on the Annunciation in Medieval Art

Author(s): Marilyn Gasparini / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Virgin Mary was an essential medieval figure, and depictions of her are ubiquitous in art. Because she is mentioned only briefly in the Bible, apocryphal sources generate many of the details of her life. This paper presents apocryphal and other non-canonical sources as significant contributors to the depiction and interpretation of the Annunciation in medieval art. It focuses on how certain elements and concepts drawn from non-canonical writings converge so that the image of the Annunciation is seen as an interactive image.

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Pseudepigrapha and Last Judgment Iconography

Author(s): Daria Coșcodan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Erected in 1453-1456 and situated in Northern Bukovina (today in Ukraine), the Church of Ascension in Luzhany represents the oldest extant witness of medieval Moldavian monumental art. The scenes depicting the “death of the righteous” and the “death of the sinner” from its Last Judgment cycle are analysed here according to their literary sources, which include Old Testament pseudepigrapha and medieval hagiographic literature. Based on the implications from these extra-biblical sources, it is argued that the eschatological focus of these two scenes is reinforced by the sensorial experience associated with the moment of death.

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Apocryphal Sources and Their Importance in the Italian Iconography of Saint James the Greater

Author(s): Andrea D’Apruzzo / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

As one of the most important apostles, St. James the Greater and iconography depicting him has shown exceptional diversity, mostly due to influence from apocryphal sources. A thorough analysis of these sources (from second to fifteenth centuries) and the way they have been translated into visual representations in Italy shows how much apocryphal sources contributed to the genesis and the development the complex characterization of St. James the Greater. This evolution demonstrates the extent into which apocryphal sources contributed to spreading his iconography throughout Europe.

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Apostolorum Gloriosissimus Princeps

Author(s): Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Owing to the fame of Masaccio’s depiction of the “St. Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow” in the Florentine Brancacci chapel, its forerunners in San Piero a Grado and Assisi were barely considered for their own sake. Consequently, important implications have been overlooked. By focusing on iconographical details and the respective local contexts, the current study proposes that both the San Piero and the Assisi examples are dependent on apocryphal writings, mediated via the Golden Legend. Furthermore, the results suggest a locally specific double function, a dualism which consists in the fact that each not only to propagates the Petrine primacy, but is also intended to attract pilgrims in San Piero, or to serve as a church- and order political statement in Assisi.

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Astrological Amulets in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius

Author(s): Paolo Vitellozzi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Hermetic treatise known as the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius (Ἱερὰ βίβλος) contains recipes for making magical amulets consecrated to the thirty-six decans of the Egyptian zodiac, thus providing reliable descriptions of these astrological figures. For each amulet, the treatise then recommends a gemstone, a plant, and a food prohibition which are evidently connected with the astrological nature of the decans themselves, according either to the Egyptian tradition or to the Hellenic magical lore. Relying on the most recent studies on decanal iconographies, this chapter aims at providing examples of engraved gems produced following the prescriptions in the Sacred Book; many of these specimens are found in the corpus of the so-called “magical gems”, some Roman imperial amulets which were deeply investigated in the last decades. Moreover, the essay will attempt to understand the astrological theories underlying the creation of the amulets described by the treatise, trying to determine the ideal relationship among the different ingredients to be used. This will eventually lead to further conclusions regarding magical practises in the Graeco-Roman world.

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Superstitions in a Sermon of Stanisław of Skarbimierz (ca. 1360-1431)

Author(s): Ewelina Kaczor / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Stanisław’s of Skarbimierz’ sermon no. 47 from his collection Sermones sapientiales provides one of the most detailed records of superstitions in a Polish sermon. Moreover, to a large degree, such a record is independent of material contained in earlier sources concerning the same topic. This suggests that the sermon was an instrument for correcting the beliefs and practices of a living congregation into which the preacher had insight and was versed in its folk beliefs and practices. The aim of this chapter is to study the accounts of these superstitions and to examine the preacher’s attitude toward it.

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