Legal regime for church property in Russia and the Baltic states
In this article, we carry out a comparative analysis of the legal regimes for church property in the Baltic States and in Russia after the demise of the USSR,. We stress the significance of this problem for the newly established relations between the state and the religious organisations, for the conclusion of agreements between ...
The Denominational Space of Modern Sweden: Christianity
... component in both host and immigrant cultures, which requires a study of the denominational space. Special attention is paid to recent changes in Sweden’s Christian space. The authors emphasise the growing role of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which is manifested in the rising number of religious facilities and a growing territorial presence. This study is the first in its kind to analyse data on the economic organisation of a foreign country’s denominational ...
Lutheranism in Finland: past and present
... since Lutheranism is currently the major confession in Finland and religion tends to strongly affect the system of values and worldview prevalent in society. The article describes the administrative structure transformation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It is argued that Finnish Lutheranism emerged in 1923. The religious and national unity of Finland contributed to bringing together the Finnish society during the Winter War, the Continuation War, and the post-war reconstruction of ...
The Soteriological Aspect of the Murals in the Kaliningrad Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
The article explores the main principles behind modern church paintings. The author examines the key factors affecting the structure of mural paintings and pays special attention to their semantic content. The main objective of the analysis is to identify means of expressive visualisation of the Divine Oeconomy,...
The legal regime of property of religious nature: The canonical aspect
This article analyses the canonical sources on church property law regulation that are recognized by the state. The author stresses the need to take into account not only the legal but also canonical component in handling property of religious nature.
1. Варьяс М. Ю. Церковное право ...
Why Kant’s “Ethical State” Might Prove Instrumental in Challenging Current Social Pathologies
... Habermas. These prove deficient owing to their contract-based approach. Important in the examination of the key idea of the “state of virtue” is Kant’s thesis that such a state “cannot be realized (by human organization) except in the form of a church”. In view of the fact that, today, in many parts of the world significant segments of the population adhere to agnostic or atheistic convictions, the focus is placed on Kant’s specific conception of “church” that is clearly distinct from ...
On the content of the Fedoseyan Old Believers’ Menologia
This article is the first attempt at an examination of the Menologium from the collection of the Voynovsky monastery. A comparative analysis of the content of different editions of church calendars made it possible to draw sev-eral conclusions. The principles of church calendar formation by the Fedosey-ans are identified. The composition of hagioanthroponyms in the Menologium is classified as archaic. Varying spellings of hagioanthroponyms ...
On fate and/or providence in Pushkin’s short story ‘The blizzard’
.... V. Tomashevsky, ed. Sobr. soch.: v 10 t. [Collected Works: in 10 vol.]. Vol. 2. Мoscow (in Russ.).
Sedakova, О. А., 2008. Slovar' trudnykh slov iz bogosluzheniya. Tserkovnoslavyano-russkie paronimy [Dictionary of difficult words from worship. Church Slavonic-Russian paronyms]. Мoscow (in Russ.).
Vinogradov, V. V., ed., 2000. Slovar' yazyka Pushkina [Dictionary of Pushkin's language]. Vol. 4. Мoscow (in Russ.).
Fomina, L., 2016. Anna Kern. Muza A. S. Pushkina [Anna Kern Muse A. S. Pushkin]....
I. Kant on religion, faith, god, and church
... blagochestiem razuma: kak Kant ne stal philosophom Otkroveniya [Between the faith of heart and godliness of mind, as Kant was not a philosopher of Revelation], in: Kantovskiy sbornik [Kant collection]. No. 1, s. 39—53.
Kant, philosophy of religion, faith, church, Christianity, reason
Belov V. N., Fakhrudinova E. R.
30-40
10.5922/0207-6918-2017-1-3
The transfer of the ownership of the objects of cultural heritage of the Kaliningrad region to the Russian Orthodox Church: the social and cultural aspects of the conflict
This article focuses on the factors having influenced the formation of the conscious attitude to the past of the Kaliningrad region in the local residents. The author shows that a special regional identity, which developed in the interaction with the unique cultural environment, requires a public discussion as decisions concerning the transfer of the ownership of cultural and historical objects to a religious organisation are made.
Karpenko A. M.
regional identity, Kaliningrad, collective memory...
