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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies
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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies.
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The content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies.
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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies
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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies.
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Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies
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Обычно считается, что церковнославянская служба сербскому деспоту Иоанну Бранковичу († 1502) создана на Фрушкой-Горе (Воеводина) анонимным монахом Крушедольского монастыря в 1708–1714 гг. (традиционная точка зрения) либо во второй половине XVI в. (современный взгляд). В статье показано, что два перекрестных канона Службы содержат единый акростих (до сих пор не замеченный) с авторской подписью. Есть основания считать, что Служба составлена Никанором (Мелентиевичем), сербским епископом Печа и Мохача (южная Венгрия), во время его пребывания в монастыре Язак (Фрушка-Гора) в 1711–1713 гг.
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The source, revealing manifestation of peasants’ mentality, is published and analyzed in the article by the example of the cave functioning near the village of Malaya Znamenka of Kamenskaya volost in Melitopol parish of Taurida Governorate. This is the case “About peasant Zagvozdkin who dug prayer caves in his garden by desire of a starets seen in his sleepof” conducted from June 27th to September 12th of 1874 by the Synod, and kept in the Russian State Historical Archive. Urgency of the commented article is in the fact that it introduces new materials on the development of cave digging tradition in the Tavricheskaya province in the Synodal period of the Russian Orthodox Church. This allows to extend the timeframe of the cult caves existence in the region concerned and to mark the ways of cave digging folk tradition.
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The myth about the creation of the first man has been engaging people’s minds from times immemorial to the present day. The story of the forefather, or the first man from whom the entire line of succession of human beings descends, viewed through the prism of the Old Testament has been embedded in the canvas of European literature. It can be found in many works, including in plenty of books for children. In this context, I consider the creation of Pinocchio as a variation of the creation of Adam: the marionette viewed as the alter ego of man’s forefather. Underneath the edifying story of Carlo Collodi’s wooden puppet, we can see the great myth of Adam’s existence in Eden and his banishment from Paradise. Human life in both stories is reminiscent of a mirror in which Adam’s punishment becomes Pinocchio’s reward. I follow the change in the idea of knowledge all the way through from the biblical myth to Collodi’s story about Pinocchio. The obedience to God’s commandments required of the first man is replaced in Collodi’s tale by the idea of an active and independent individual who has to make his own choices in life.
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In the year 112, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the emperor Trajan (10.96) about his actions with regard to some people who had denounced as Christians in the Roman province of Bithynia. This letter is the earliest surviving Roman document that refers to the Roman attitude in regard to the new religious movement, and it also provides very important information on early Christian beliefs and worship at the beginning of the second century. Within the short passage of Pliny’s letter we find valuable details on early Christian gatherings and worship. Two parts of worship can be identified: they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn, and after that to depart and to assemble again to partake of food. At morning gatherings Christians sang responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, andbound themselves by oath, not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. Early, Christians gathered again to have common meals. Although Pliny does not mention the name itself, these meal gatherings were probably Agape. According to Pliny’s report the Agape and Eucharist gatherings were not two separate events and were held in the evening. But Pliny also suggests that these evening gatherings should have been ceased after his edict by which he had forbidden political and religious associations. It seemed changes of Christians worship had already begun. Depending on the places and times, the Eucharistic meals came to be received primarily at morning gatherings and involved small amounts of bread and wine. Many elements Pliny mentioned in his letter have their roots in Jewish worship.
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Transhumanism – a threat or a cure for the humanity? The big question which triggers the lovers of technologies is whether machines are going to override moral norms set by humans leading to misbalance between necessary and allowed. What will be the ultimate criterion for right and useful in the age, where technology is authorized to decide life and death? Do we need to correct our bodies, to augment our capabilities, to postpone death or even to eradicate it? These are some of the topics discussed in my paper.
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The study introduces a definition of Salafism from the perspective of Islamic intellectual history by analyzing specific ideas, cases, processes and entanglements in Muslim theology and jurisprudence. The essay considers the ongoing scholarly debates within Middle Eastern and Islamic studies by simultaneously scrutinizing Arabic-Islamic sources to delineate a set of key relevant Muslim theological and legal debates. The analysis tackles some major issues of the typology and classification of the Salafī movement. Thus, the issue of the enigmatic and ambivalent character of the term Salafism is touched upon insofar as the concept is still applied in a too vague manner to some modernist reformers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as well as to the markedly different contemporary Salafī movement encompassing a wide range of individuals and groups, including political formations like the Nūr Party in Egypt or jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State (IS). In so doing, the analysis also re-examines some conceptualizations of Islam, and particularly Salafism, within Western social thought.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of gender aspects of social service of religious organizations in modern Russia and the world. A sufficient number of scientific publications is devoted to the subject of gender in Russian social policy and social work while social service of religious organizations is practically not touched upon by such an analysis. In many ways, this is justified by the conservatism of the confessional ideologies of service and the religious affiliation of scientists who represent research in social service. At the same time, it is the established traditions of the separation of men and women in the social work of various religious organizations that are attractive for gender analysis. Based on the results of the content analysis of expert interviews in Russian and English, the authors draw conclusions about the specifics of gender relations in social service. The Russian-language content analysis is dominated by interviews of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and Muslim communities of the European part of Russia. Experts of modern Russian social service represent the traditional division of labor in religious social services for men and women, position female employees in a rather rigid male hierarchy, apply categories of obedience and blessings. The content analysis of English-language materials is presented in most of the interviews of employees of Muslim social projects and Buddhist communities around the world. The participation of women in social service has become an important topic of the experts’ reasoning. Muslim NGOs represent opportunities for expressing the activity of women, who previously were not visible behind the labor of the male priesthood.
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The article may be regarded as a continuation and a concretization of the general principles expounded in my previous article „On the Possible Approaches to Studying Bogomilism“, published in Philosophical Alternatives, issue 5, 2015, and occasioned by Erika Lazarova’s book The Bogomil-Cathar Philosophy as a Lived Ethics, Avangard Print, 2013. The author analyzes concepts such as „Bogomil-Cathar philosophy“ and reveals their groundlessness, as well as that of the phrase „lived ethics“, which is a metaphor, not a scientific concept. The article proves the need to work with sources, not metaphors used as sources. The groundlessness of the concept/term „dualist Christianity“ is revealed: Christianity is monistic, and monism cannot possibly be a dualism.
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The aim of the present study is to delineate some of the major Islamic jurisprudental approaches to the regulation of the cases challenging the normative sexual differentiation and the legal foundations of the sharī‘a marriage that recognizes as legitimate solely the heterosexual relationships. The pursuit of this objective requires a consideration of the Islamic binary sex paradigm that sets strictly defined gender roles for men and women in the religious and ritual practice and the system of social relationships among Muslims. The essay foregrounds some prevailing judgments and opinions of Sunnī and Shī‘a religious scholars and jurisprudents about intersex people with ambiguous genitalia (khunthā) and the insufficiently clear gender category of the so-called mukhannath. In so doing, the analysis re-examines the issue of the Islamic permissibility of the sex-change surgery in the cases of individuals with transgender identities.
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The article deals with a research topic unexplored in the Bulgarian ethnological discourse – the distribution and specifics of Buddhism in Bulgaria. It aims at providing information about the penetration of Buddhism in the country and the state of Buddhist communities at present. Suggesting that Buddhism should be studied within the paradigm of the new spirituality/new religiousness, it attempts to view this specific worldview in the context of its global dissemination in the Western world. Due to the necessity of providing basic information on the topic, the article does not claim to give particular answers, but to raise questions regarding the functions and significance of Buddha’s teaching in the Bulgarian national culture. Keywords: Buddhism, global, new religious movements, Bulgaria
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The core topic of this paper is the interaction of adaptation and literary canon. As starting points serve Diderot’s idea of changing the “standard according to the circumstances” and T. S. Eliot’s notion of “an ideal order” of “existing monuments”, “which is modified by the introduction of a new work of art” or author. Semantic doublings inherent to the concept of adaptation are outlined which indicate that what the phenomenon effectively accomplishes is not a unilateral influence but a bilateral interaction between the subject and the environment or media. A literary analysis by Auerbach is discussed as an example of the latter. Characteristics of the Biblical and the secular literary canons as well as the conservative and the liberal understandings of the canon are juxtaposed. The etymology of the latter is traced back to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Еthics. In conclusion, the paper provides an intertextual approach by means of which adaptation forms heterotopic structures in the literary canon.
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This paper is dedicated to a text entitled A Tale of the Holy and Honourable Icons and How and Why the Holy and Catholic Church Decided to Celebrate the Feast of Orthodoxy on the First Sunday of Lent that is known in Medieval Bulgarian and Serbian manuscripts. The text was translated from Greek most probably in the fourteenth century in a Bulgarian milieu. The appearance of this translation and its dissemination in South Slavonic milieuх were viewed in the context of the establishment of the Feast of Orthodoxy and other texts designated for this feast in Byzantium.
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