eastern orthodoxy in russia, i
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Michael Makin, LHSP 100, 21 October 2003. Mi. Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia, I. Discussed today:. Ware, IV Formation of local community – language, national identity; Hence, mapping the original onto national territory – “desert” becomes forest; bathe in the Jordan in Vologda province. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia, I
Michael Makin, LHSP 100, 21 October 2003
Discussed today:•Ware, IV Formation of local community –language, national identity;
• Hence, mapping the original onto national territory – “desert” becomes forest; bathe in the Jordan in Vologda province.
•Hence, too – idea of “Moscow, the third Rome”, Monk Filofei to Vasilii (Basil) III, 1511, Russian “messianism”.
•Founding text – Hilarion (eleventh century), locate own community in tradition.
• (But remember, the church keeps the books – historians may see these processes quite differently)
• Ware, XV – community formed by calendar, everyday life and the sacred interact.
• The liturgy, the Cherubic Hymn; Orthodox syncretism.
• A qualification – language – Old Church Slavonic.
• The Old Believers – Avvakum writes his own hagiography; the Russian translations are more “authentic” than the Greek originals; the Old Believers, conservative in dogma and practice, are highly innovative in discourse and art (and can claim to be “more Russian” than everyone else, because they have preserved the “old ways”).
Timeline of Church History, from St Vladimir’s, Dexter. How an Orthodox Christian is invited to view Christianity
A question of location and perspective…
Moscow, the “third Rome” – religion and ideology joined in local specifics
The Moscow Kremlin, heart of Muscovite power and church
Orthodoxy forms community not only through texts
Andrei Rublev, “Old Testament Trinity”, early 15th century
Fresco by Dionisii, early 16th Century
The Ferapontov Monastery, northern Vologda Province
The entrance shrine, and the view from it. Such Russian monasteries were founded in the deserted north, and their relationship to community and to landscape is very significant. This monastery is famed for the frescoes of Dionisii.
Web Sites
The Internet offers many possibilities for exploring Russia. A good place for the English-speaking surfer to begin is the web site of the Russian
Department at Bucknell College (http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/index.html).
More locally, note our own sites:http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/
http://www.umich.edu/stpetersburg/index2.htmlhttp://www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~resco/index.html
And don’t miss the opportunity to see a brilliant production of Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov, at the Sports Coliseum
29 October – 2 November (http://www.ums.org/season/artists/ap.asp?pageid=154)
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]