Культ икон в православной традиции восточных славян: обряды, обычаи и традиции в прошлом и сегодня

Author(s): Joanna Kozieł / Language(s): Russian Issue: 06/2015

This article discusses the phenomenon of cult of icons in the East Slavic’s culture. The Slavic culture is ingrained in the orthodox tradition. This fact is reflected in a strong impact of religion on the life of society: customs, rituals and art. The icons are one of the most important elements of Orthodoxy Church and for that reason they are close associated with Russian culture. Despite prolonged atheisation, the Slavic culture is ingrained in the orthodox tradition and cult of the icons. It is noticeable not only in Russian churches, but also in ordinary life of believers. Majority of homes of Orthodox Christian have special space: «beautiful» corner with icons. Moreover, role of the icons emphasize in language: there is a lot of idiom and phrases connected with icons.

Восточнохристиянские реликвии

Author(s): Alexander Minchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2005

Encomia in the Slavonic Сopies of Euthymius Zigabenos’s Panoplia Dogmatike

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2017

The paper examines the texts encomia in the Slavonic copies that contain the First and the Second book of Euthymios Zigabenos’s 12th century Panoplia Dogmatike. The focus is on the following written evidence: the Slavonic translation of PD First book from the first to the 11th chapter included in two manuscripts: HM.SMS 186 – a 16th century copy from Hilandar monastery, and another 16th century manuscript – miscellany III c 16, Mihanovich collection in HAZU; the only copy containing the Second Book of PD in Slavonic – Ms. Slav. BAR 296 from the repository in the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest, dated from the very beginning of the 15th century; the famous Zagreb miscellany of Vladislav the Grammarian from 1469 with excerpts from PD. The texts of encomia are published as a complex for the first time. The author sustains the hypothesis that the Slavonic translation of PD had a close connection with the Athonite monastic brotherhood, whose orthodoxy and orthopraxy was the main engine for both the appearance of the translation, and its subsequent use and spread, especially in Ottoman times, when the Orthodoxy, more than ever, needed the dogmatic bases of its identity. The article tries to answer the question about the role of encomia in this process.

PRIKAZI

Author(s): Milan Vesović,Momčilo Zečević,Nikola B. Popović,Milan Koljanin,Sava Živanov,Dragica Koljanin,Zoran Lakić,Đorđe Knežević,Dragan Tešić,Veselinka Kastratović-Ristić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/1995

Review of: 1. Simo C. Ćirković, MARSEJSKI KRST KRALJA ALEKSANDRA, Beograd, Intime, 1994, str. 205. Review by: Milan Vesović 2. Miloš Mišović, ZATAMNJENA ISTORIJA, TAJNA TESTAMENTA KRALJA ALEKSANDRA I SMRT PATRIJARHA VARNAVE, Beograd 1994, str. 186. Review by: Momčilo Zečević 3. Nikolaj J. Danilevski, RUSIJA I EVROPA, Beograd 1994, str. 450. Review by: Nikola B. Popović 4. Nikolaj J. Danilevski, RUSIJA I EVROPA, Beograd 1994, str. 450. Review by: Milan Koljanin 5. РОССИЯ В XX ВЕКЕ, Историки мира спорят, izđ. »Nauka«, Moskva 1994, str. 752. Review by: Savo Živanov 6. Zapisi Pere Đukanovića. USTANAK NA DRINI, priredio dr Zdravko Antonić, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, Balkanološki institut, Posebna izdanja, knjiga 53, Beograd, 1994, str. 348. Review by: Dragica Koljanin 7. Nikola Ivanović, ,REČENO ILI PREĆUTANO (Intervjui), Beograd 1993, str. 201. Review by: Zoran Lakić 8. Vlado Strugar, SRBI, HRVATI, SLOVENCI I TREĆA JUGOSLAVIJA, Beograd 1991, str. 368. Review by: Đorđe Knežević 9. Đoko Tripković, Milica Tripković, ISKUŠENJA JEDNE MLADOSTI, Jugoslovenski omladinci u Čehoslovačkoj 1946-1948, Istraživačko-izdavački centar SSO Srbije, Beograd 1988, str. 149 + 5 strana fotografija Review by: Dragan Tešić 10. Mira Radojević, UDRUŽENA OPOZICIJA 1935-1939, Beograd 1994, str. 257. Review by: Veselinka Kastratović-Ristić

Специфична лексика в гръцкия текст на Книга Откровение на св. Йоан Богослов.

Author(s): Iva Trifonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

This article is about the original Greek vocabulary in the Book of Revelation of St. John the Theologian (or of the Apocalypse) in view of the development of the overall Christian biblical tradition. The object of the study is the Greek vocabulary in the New Testament canonical corpus, which is found only in the text of the Apocalypse – i.e. the excerpted lexical units have remained out of the vocabulary of the Greek translation of the Old Testament canonical corpus, outside the sacred evangelical text and beyond that of the epistoles and the acts of Christ’s apostles. The collected lexical material is presented together with its Slavonic translation in the context of the other biblical books from the earliest period of Slavonic script, and is supplemented by its correspondences in the Latin translation of the Sacred Scripture

Между ереста и кабалата – адамитство и адамизъм в средновековна България

Author(s): Hristo Saldzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

The present article regards the history of an adamitian sect practicing “ritual nudism” and the specifics of peculiar cult of Adam in the 14th century Bulgaria. On the basis of comparative analysis of other cases of “adamitism” in North Africa and Western Europe in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages it is proposed the hypothesis that Bulgarian “adamitism” was due to the influence of gnostic gospel texts belonged to Early Christian communities. In respect to “adamism” which is specified as a cult of non-biblical and non-Christian Adam, the view that it stemmed from the Jewish community inhibiting the capital of the Second Bulgarian tsardom and reflected religious notions connected with the medieval mystical Judaism is introduced. Chronologically the spread of “adamism” must be attributed to the 1350-ies. Then, according to the contemporary sources, Judaic religious ideas were actively propagandized in the capital city of Tarnovo and its vicinity.

Благовеста Иванова. Българският архитектурен комплекс на Златния рог. София, Изд. „Парадигма“, 2018. 471 с.

Author(s): Yordan Zhelev / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

Book Review

PREZENTĂRI BIBLIOGRAFICE

Author(s): Maxim Moraru,Stelian Gombos,Cătălin Varga,Răzvan Fibișan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2020

“Showered with Privileges by Our Government:” Russian Self-Presentation to Muslim Communities in Ottoman Syria

Author(s): Paul du Quenoy / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2020

Traditional scholarship of Russia’s involvement in the Middle East has focused on confessional politics, usually arguing that Russian policies were designed to support the region’s minority Orthodox Christian populations to build pro-Russian constituencies among them. Important as this work is, it has devoted relatively little attention to Russian interaction with the region’s other confessional communities, including, oddly, its Muslims. Following the work of Edward Said and other theorists of “Orientalism,” some work on that relationship has argued that Russians looked down upon Middle Eastern Muslims, finding them in some contexts inferior and primitive, in others similar enough to provoke unsettling challenges to the assumption by Russians of a “Western” identity, and in still others simply uninteresting. More recent studies, however, have argued that this interpretation is neither consistent with the Russian Empire’s treatment of its own large domestic Muslim population nor uniformly accurate in its interactions with Muslims beyond its borders.

Радмила Радић, Војислав Јанић (1890–1944). Свештеник и политичар. Поглед кроз аналитички прозор

Author(s): Mirko Mlakar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2021

Review of: Mirko Mlakar - Радмила Радић, Војислав Јанић (1890–1944). Свештеник и политичар. Поглед кроз аналитички прозор (Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2018), 482 str. Mirko Mlakar - Радмила Радић, Мисија британске Хришћанске заједнице младих људи у Краљевини Југославији (Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2019), 375 str.

Болгарское присутствие в иностранных духовных (восточно-православных) учебных заведениях (1878-1912)

Author(s): Ivan Tanchev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2000

Из началната история на българската църква в Браила през ХІХ в.

Author(s): Nikolay Zhechev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article tells about the early history of the Bulgarian church in the Romanian town of Braila in the third quarter of the 19th century. In this city at that time there was a large Bulgarian emigrant community, resettled there mainly after the Russo-Turkish war of 1828–1829. It was distinguished by its active economic and socio-cultural activities and in the 1860s turned the city into the cultural capital of the Bulgarian diaspora in Romania. There was a Bulgarian school there, Bulgarian newspapers were published, Bulgarian printing houses functioned; prominent Bulgarian writers, playwrights, publicists such as Dobri Voynikov, Vasil Drumev, Hristo Botev lived and worked in the city for some time… The Bulgarian Literary Society (predecessor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) was founded there (in 1869), a community center and other social and cultural organizations operated, and a fruitful theatrical activity developed. But even in the 1860s, the Bulgarian community still did not have its own church to worship in their native language. The article traces, on the basis of the currently available documentary and other sources, the preparation and implementation of the construction of the Bulgarian Church of the Ascension of Christ in Braila, carried out mainly in the years 1868–1875. This endeavor was guided by the elected church boards, which managed to mobilize for this purpose the spiritual potential and material resources of the Bulgarian community there. The funds for the construction of the temple were raised through voluntary donations and loans, in which representatives of all strata of the Bulgarian diaspora participated: rich merchants and bankers, as well as smaller merchants, craftsmen, innkeepers, gardeners, etc., as well as many activists of the local intelligentsia, active participants in the national liberation movement, etc. Thus, the construction of the Bulgarian church in Braila, which still exists today – a century and a half later, became a real nationwide affair and despite some accompanying negative phenomena, became one of the most positive and successful pages in the history of Bulgarian emigration to Romania.

Sprawozdanie z sympozjum naukowego Maryja w teologii i sztuce chrześcijańskiej, Stadniki, 6 maja 2021 roku

Author(s): Leszek Poleszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Report from the scientific symposium Mary, Mother of God, in theology and Christian art, Stadniki, May 6th, 2021

“BEGIN AS YOU MEAN TO GO ON”: THE OPENING CHAPTERS OF THE PALAEA HISTORICA IN GREEK, SLAVONIC, AND ROMANIAN

Author(s): Mihail-George Hâncu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The aim of this paper is to provide a starting point for a comparison between the four edited versions of the Palaea Historica: the Greek one, the first Slavonic translation, the Romanian translation and the recently published second Slavonic translation. The four versions diverge from the very beginning, with the Greek and the first Slavonic translation providing a discussion on the Holy Trinity before moving on to God’s creation of the world, whereas the Romanian version omits the theological introduction and expands the cosmogonical portion with a paraphrase of Epiphanius’ Hexaemeron. The second Slavonic translation omits the entire description of the six days of creation in order to focus on Adam and the symbolic importance of his name. Another point of interest is the treatment of a fragment condemning the heretical view that Satan was Cain’s father, which is not conserved in the first Slavonic version and the Romanian versions.

Индулгенции, издавани от източноправославни патриаршии част ІІ

Author(s): Philippos Iliou / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The study, published in Greek in 1983–1985, is devoted to a phenomenon in the Eastern Orthodox Church that had not, until then, been the subject of a special research in the field of social history. Based on a vast array of historical sources, the author presents and comments on facts about the production and distribution of indulgences from the Patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch from the 16th to the 20th century. The emergence and gradual establishment of the institution of indulgences in Eastern Orthodoxy is traced within the socio-political and cultural context of four centuries, focusing on the reasons for the introduction of indulgences, the stages of gradual standardization of their text, and the various forms of their distribution. The phenomenon is reflected in detail, taking into account its extension into the field of dogma, economics, social and political relations. The study sheds new abundant light on important issues in the history of the church, societies and attitudes in the world of Eastern Orthodoxy. An inventory of 57 printed Orthodox indulgences is also attached.

„За нашите пари място намериха, а нашите думи и молби под камък оставиха“: Петко Р. Славейков и българският църковен въпрос през 1858 година

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

In 1858 Petko R. Slaveykov (1827–1895) was already an influential public figure in his homeland – the regions of Tarnovo and Tryavna. Gradually, it was becoming more and more visible nationally – especially in the field of the church struggle against the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its metropolitans on Bulgarian lands. Slaveykov’s literary endeavors were becoming more and more recognizable. In this context, one of his unpublished and unknown pamphlets is presented and interpreted in the paper. The attribution of the manuscript is based on a wide range of data – archival, biographical, literary. The connection with the other components of the writer’s work is implemented through facts, topics and language specifics. The full text of the manuscript is presented in compliance with the current rules for publishing archival materials from the Revival epoch.

Cultural-Religious Context of Translation Style. On Euthymius Atoneli’s Translations

Author(s): Irakli Orzhonia / Language(s): English,Greek, Modern (1453-) Issue: 11/2021

This article discusses the original translation style of St. Euthymius the Athonite (10th11th centuries), a great Georgian monk working in the Iviron Monastery of Athos (Greece), which was called an ‘omission-addition style’ in the scientific literature, and was entirely conditioned not by linguistic but by cultural-religious context. The main goal of the article is to examine that unique phenomenon we are dealing with in the form of his translations, that sheds light on how a translator may turn linguistic tools into cultural vectors of a society, a country, determining the main path for spiritual and intellectual development of the nation in a particular historical epoch and along the centuries. From the rich Greek theological literature, Euthymius the Athonite selected for translation those works that would best reflect the knowledge accumulated in that field at the time, and presented them to Georgian readers, still less knowledgeable in theological matters, in such a way that would best suit them and strengthen their Christian faith, on the one hand, and introduce them to the advanced Western thought, on the other. Research focus is on the translations of theological content. Based on the comparative analysis of the Greek-Georgian texts, I examine those methods and means that Euthymius the Athonite used to keep the Georgian nation from possible religious threats, misunderstandings, and difficulties that accompanied the misinterpretation of religious texts in the Middle Ages. Euthymius the Athonite laid a solid foundation for the process of Europeanization of Georgian literature and culture, which his descendants continued with dignity.

Foreign Bogomilism? The Historiosophic Hesitations of Petar Mutafchiev

Author(s): Georgi Minczew / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2021

The article is devoted to the 1934 philosophical and historical essay by Petar Mutafchiev entitled The Priest Bogomil and St. John of Rila. The Spirit of Negation in Our History (Поп Богомил и Свети Иван Рилски. Духът на отрицанието в нашата история), discussed in the context of both the author’s general historiographic output and the spiritual and cultural explorations of Bulgarian intellectuals in the interwar period. The study examines certain external influences on Mutafchiev’s scholarly work, first and foremost Benedetto Croce’s views on ‘absolute historicism’. It also investigates three central historiosophic concepts of the Bulgarian medievalist: 1) the ‘saltatory’ development of Bulgarian history, 2) the destructive impact of Byzantinism on the political, religious and cultural life of medieval Bulgaria, as well as 3) the superficial character of the Bulgarian people’s religion – the effect of receiving ‘foreign’ Christianity from the very same Byzantine hands. In this regard, Bogomilism appears to be an ‘external’ doctrine, having incorporated older dualist ideas, which passed through Byzantium and therefore also reflected the destructive Byzantinism to some extent. Mutafchiev’s original conception goes off the beaten paths of earlier views and testimonies, attesting to the excellency of both the essay itself and the historian’s overall vision of Bulgarian history.

The Journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, from the Baptism to becoming the Son of God and from the Earthly to the Heavenly Kingdom from the Point of View of Allegorical Interpretation

Author(s): Eva Kovacheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The article discusses two historical events taken from texts from the Holy Scripture – the Old and the New Testaments, and a spiritual view on human soul, as found in the Holy tradition of the Orthodox church: they support the thesis that, according to the method of allegorical interpretation, the three evidences point to three inner stages through which human soul passes in its transition to a holistic spiritual development: from the act of the Holy Baptism to the entry into the Kingdom of God.

ST. MARINA BETWEEN VENICE AND THE BALKANS

Author(s): Valeria Fol / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

In this article I return to St. Marina, on whose folkloric image and faith I worked many years ago. My goal is to supplement my previous observations with new ones and to expand the territorial scope. Special attention is paid to the veneration of the saint’s sacred relics in the Mediterranean and the reactivation of her cult. I also consider the transformational models in the believers’ notions of the cave and nature, and the periodic renewal of those notions through archaization and return to archetypes personified in the cult of St. Marina.