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Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia, I

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.

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Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia, I

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  1. Michael Makin, LHSP 100, 21 October 2003 Mi Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia, I

  2. 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)

  3. 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”).

  4. A question of location and perspective… Timeline of Church History, from St Vladimir’s, Dexter. How an Orthodox Christian is invited to view Christianity

  5. Moscow, the “third Rome” – religion and ideology joined in local specifics The Moscow Kremlin, heart of Muscovite power and church

  6. Orthodoxy forms community not only through texts Andrei Rublev, “Old Testament Trinity”, early 15th century Fresco by Dionisii, early 16th Century

  7. 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.

  8. Web SitesThe 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.htmlAnd don’t miss the opportunity to see a brilliant production of Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov, at the Sports Coliseum29 October – 2 November (http://www.ums.org/season/artists/ap.asp?pageid=154)For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me at mlmakin@umich.edu

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