Download or read book The Structure of the Artistic Text written by Юрий Михайлович Лотман and published by Michigan Slavic Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language Canonization and Holy Foolishness written by Per-Arne Bodin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the Russian Orthodox tradition meets post-Soviet Russia? This is the gemeral question which will be in the focus in this study of the Orthodox discourse in post-Soviet Russian culture. It will be abalyzed both in its own right and as a constituent of memory, a conservative or imperialist political attitude and postmodernism. One issue addressed in the debate over the use of Church Slavonic as the liturgical language. Another invloves the nature of the canonizations that have taken place in the Orthodox Church in recent years and attempts to canonize the soldier Evgenij Rodionov and Stalin. A third topic is jurodstvo, or holy foolishness, for centuries a special and recurring theme in the Orthodox Church that has re-emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union. A chapter is devoted to Ksenija of Petersburg, a peculiar and much beloved holy fool of that city. A final issue concerns the significance of the Orthodox tradition in recent Russian art and poetry.
Download or read book Russia s Place in Europe written by Kurt R. Spillmann and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses the role of the Russian Federation within the post-Cold War European security architecture. It assesses the Russian foreign and security policy discourse as well as foreign and security policy making. Rather than confronting «Western» and «Russian» positions, the book provides a forum of debate among Russians, reflecting the authentic character of the internal security dialogue. Ukrainian and Belarussian perspectives are included for additional insight into the CIS dimension of Russian foreign and security policy. The book contains contributions by well-known analysts of Russian foreign and security policy such as Yevgeniy Bazhanov, Aleksey Filitov, Andrey Kortunov, Igor Maximychev, Tatyana Parkhalina, Sergey Rogov, Anatoliy Rozanov, Dmitriy Trenin and others. The contributions are introduced and commented by the editors.
Download or read book Byzantine Magic written by Henry Maguire and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by specialists in several disciplines, this volume explores the parameters and significance of magic in Byzantine society, from the fourth century to after the empire's fall. The authors address a wide variety of questions, some of which are common to all historical research into magic, and some of which are peculiar to the Byzantine context. The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates concerning magic and its roles in pre-modern societies.
Download or read book Slavophile Empire written by Laura Engelstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political life. Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and to the left, by those who favored illiberal options. In the book's rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia's identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after 1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are still in evidence today.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Russian History written by James R. Millar and published by MacMillan Reference Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This four-volume set features nearly 1,500 entries by experts on all aspects of Russian history, including important biographical figures, geographical areas, ethnographic groups, cultural landmarks, military campaigns, and social issues."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.
Download or read book Masters of the Steppe The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia written by Svetlana Pankova and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 45 papers presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum during the 2017 BP exhibition 'Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia'. Papers include new archaeological discoveries, results of scientific research and studies of museum collections, most presented in English for the first time.
Download or read book The Lilac Bush written by Judith Mandel Novack and published by Shengold Pub. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lilac Bush is not another story of a Holocaust survivor. It consists of delicately told stories of a young woman who arrives in New York in 1947 after surviving Auschwitz, only to find out that post-war America is trying to forget the war and is not interested in her past. The author overcomes the ordeal and builds a new life, setting an example of the indestructability of the human spirit.
Download or read book Sound Sign and Meaning written by Ladislav Matejka and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Adjustment in Old Age written by Otto Pollak and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Science Research Council, Bulletin No. 59, 1948.
Download or read book The Meaning of Work and Retirement written by Eugene A. Friedmann and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Society and the Orthodox Church written by Zoe Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism, which in turn have influenced the ways in which Russians understand civil society, including those of its features - pluralism and freedom of conscience - that are essential for a functioning democracy. It shows how the official church, including the Moscow Patriarchate, has impeded the development of civil society, while on the other hand the non-official church, including nonconformist clergy and lay activists, has promoted concepts central to civil society.
Download or read book Bread wine and salt written by Alden Nowlan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Older Population of the United States written by Henry Davidson Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Icons of Their Bodies written by Henry Maguire and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. The composition and presentation of this imagined gallery followed a logical structure, a construct that was itself a collective work of art created by Byzantine society. The purpose of this book is to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. Here Henry Maguire argues that the Byzantines gave to their images differing formal characteristics of movement, modeling, depth, and differentiation, according to the tasks that the icons were called upon to perform in the all-important business of communication between the visible and the invisible worlds. The book draws extensively on sources that have been relatively little utilized by art historians. It considers both domestic and ecclesiastical artifacts, showing how the former raised the problem of access by lay men and women to the supernatural and fueled the debates concerning the role of images in the Christian cult. Special attention is paid to the poems inscribed by the Byzantines upon their icons, and to the written lives of their saints, texts that offer the most direct and vivid insight into the everyday experience of art in Byzantium. The overall purpose of the book is to provide a new view of Byzantine art, one that integrates formal analysis with both theology and social history.
Download or read book Rhetoric Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art written by Henry Maguire and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of rhetoric, nature and magic in Byzantine art. The text explores artistic conventions and descriptions of works of art from early Christian and Byzantine art, and middle and late Byzantine art.
Download or read book Stalin s Holy War written by Steven Merritt Miner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin's restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalism in order to counter the mortal threat of Nazism. Here, Steven Merritt Miner argues that this version of events, while not wholly untrue, is incomplete. Using newly opened Soviet-era archives as well as neglected British and American sources, he examines the complex and profound role of religion, especially Russian Orthodoxy, in the policies of Stalin's government during World War II. Miner demonstrates that Stalin decided to restore the Church to prominence not primarily as a means to stoke the fires of Russian nationalism but as a tool for restoring Soviet power to areas that the Red Army recovered from German occupation. The Kremlin also harnessed the Church for propaganda campaigns aimed at convincing the Western Allies that the USSR, far from being a source of religious repression, was a bastion of religious freedom. In his conclusion, Miner explores how Stalin's religious policy helped shape the postwar history of the USSR.
