Стенописното наследство на банските зографи Михалко Голев и Димитър Сирлещов – между традицията и новото време

Author(s): Nikolay Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 9/2014

The paper deals with the church murals byMihalko Ivanov Golev and Dimiter Sirleshtov. Their murals at 11 Orthodox churches in Bulgaria’s southwest are given in a nutshell. Ten of the churches are in the region of Blagoevgrad in the Struma Valley and the elevenths is in the vicinities of Kyustendil. Most of the examined churches were listed as heritage sites of undeniable cultural significance. These churches were built and painted in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. That was a very complicated and multilayered time at the close of Bulgarian National Revival period with these western parts of Bulgaria still under the Ottomans to be liberated as late as 1912; an undoubted achievement both by the master builders and the icon-painters, joining forces to establish the Bulgarian identity and to revive the Orthodox traditions.

Стефан Кожухаров в семейството си

Author(s): Evgenia Kozhuharova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 51/2015

Стефка Венкова: „Апостол Николаев-Струмски– живот, вдъхновен от музиката”

Author(s): Julian Kujumdzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2016

Стилистичкосинтаксичкe одлике теолошких научних радова на енглеском и српском језику

Author(s): Ivana Knežević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2018

Extralinguistic characteristics of scientific, and thus of theological way of thinking leave their impact on the syntactic level of scientific papers. This paper deals with the syntactic characteristics of theological scientific papers of a strictly scientific substyle as the core of the scientific style, and it underlines the possible differences with regard to belonging to a particular group of substyle. The analysis has been carried out on the corpus of selected works of eminent theologians in English and Serbian languages.

Стодвадесетпета катедрална oмилија Севира Антиохијског

Author(s): Petar Jevremović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2017

This text is concerned with Severus of Antioch and his possible contributions for our understanding of the human personality. His ideas are seen in the context of his epoch. Within the framework of his Cathedral sermon no. 125 Severus of Antioch has developed a possible theological outline for one strictly Christian theory of the human personality. His theory of human personality if essentialy developemental. There are good reasons to argue that Severus of Antioch was first theortician of human’s personal developement. Main point of differentiation between human and divine person, within his discourse, is his insistance on the temporal nature of human personality. God is eternal. Man is temporal. God’s being is absolute and perfect. Man’s being is far from being perfect. Man is mortal. Temporality of the human existence implies necessity of individual developement. Developement can be seen as a progresive process of configurating the personality. Severus of Antioch is seen as a first theoretician of human’s personal developement, of the historicity of the human existence. His original insight implies that human personality is ontologically historic. Individuality comes from historicity. Peter is distinguished from Paul by the fact of their different past histories, although both sare the same generic humanity. Each person arises from his own historical situation and affects the world through his own independent operation or mode of being.

Страдање свештеника Рашко-Призренске епархије током Првог светског рата

Author(s): Puzović Predrag / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2018

Based on the reports saved in the Archive of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, we have briefly presented the suffering of the priests of the Raška-Prizren Diocese during the First World War. The sufferings are described by their occurrence in episcopal deaneries. Some priests were murdered, some abused and tortured, many were confined in internment camps in Hungary and Bulgaria. A small number of priests who survived the horrors of war suffered lifelong consequences. The surviving priests and the eyewitnesses have left us a precious testimony about the suffering of the priesthood. Their torturers were Austrians, Bulgarians, and the Arnauti.

Страдање српског православља у Босанској Крајини 1806–1859

Author(s): Bratislav Teinović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2021

The paper discusses suffering and persecution of the Serb Orthodox clergy in Bosanska Krajina during the restless years of the First Serbian Uprising and the Jančić’s Rebellion from 1806 to 1809, anti–reformist Muslim resistance in 1832, the Priest Jovica’s Rebellion in 1834 and the uprising in Krajina in 1858. During these years, a number of churches had been destroyed or set on fire and many priests had been killed. Most of these events took place in Bosanska Krajina, where priests from Bosanska Dubica, Bosanska Kostajnica, Bosanska Gradiška, Prijedor, Banja Luka, Bihać, Bosanski Petrovac and Glamoč took active participation in the uprising activities. For over half of the century, from the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 until the failure of the uprising in Krajina in 1859, Serb Orthodox priests and churches on the wider territory of Bosanska Krajina had been frequently targeted by the zealous Muslim army. After the First Serbian Uprising, many churches had been set on fire, including the two „symbols of the Serbian nationality“ in Bosanska Krajina, monasteries Liplje from the 15th century and Gomionica from the 16th century, and dozens of priests killed. Oppression over the clergy and destruction of churches continued during the Priest Jovica’s Rebellion in 1834 and riots caused by the Muslim rebellion against reforms in the 1840s and 1850s. The violence escalated during the Krajina Uprising in 1858 when many lower ranked priests took places of leaders in the fights against the Turkish rule. After the final rebellion had failed, the enraged Turks set on fire and desecrated two monasteries and 14 churches and arrested, killed or expelled to Austria certain number of priests.

Страна лексика у академским, уџбеничким и популарним делима православне теологије на енглеском и српском језику

Author(s): Ivana Knežević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2019

The use of internationalisms is characteristic for the scientific lexicon in general. These are primarily the words of Greek and Latin origin, although today,internationalisms also include words that entered English, that is, Serbian dictionary from other, most often European languages, as well. In this paper, we will especially pay attention to the peculiarities of internationalisms that entered modern, English and Serbian, languages mainly from Greek, Latin and Hebrew. The analysis was carried out on the corpus of theological academic papers, with a special emphasis on internationalism in the scientific general and narrowly professional terminology, in the works of academic or scientific proper substyle in English and Serbian languages.In addition, the results of the statistical analysis conducted on the corpus of eighteen theological works of scientific proper, scientific-educational and scientific-popular substyles were also included, which, among other things brings the peculiarities of internationalisms in the scientific-educational and scientific-popular theological works, as well. ▶ Key words: functional stylistics, theological scientific papers, internationalisms, scientific proper substyle, general scientific terminology, nomenclatures

Стратегії сучасної політики щодо народної релігійної культури

Author(s): Polina Herchanivsʹka / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 26/2011

The article is dedicated to the problem of the preservation and the innovation development of the folk religious culture, owing to the realization of its immanent reserves and the activization of the institution component of the social-culture regulation as the catalyst of its creation.

Структура стихотворения Хлебникова «Меня проносят на слоновых ...»

Author(s): V. V. Ivanov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/1967

Ключом для понимания основного образа этого стихотворения должна служить индийская миниатюра, несомненно, навеявшая Хлебникову этот образ (см. рис. 1). Миниатюра изображает пронесение Вишну на слоне, который образован сплетением женских фигур. Двуплановость этого образа на индийской миниатюре привлекла внимание С. М. Эйзенштейна, который через 24 года после того, как Хлебников воплотил этот пластический образ в стихах, анализировал индийскую ми¬ ниатюру (не зная о стихотворении Хлебникова) в работе по теории монтажа. Соответствующее место из его недавно изданного трактата «Монтаж» заслуживает подробного цитирования: «Интересующий нас в данную минуту «момент» будет по линии формирования сознания тем самым, когда обобщение, понятие еще не целиком сумело «выделиться» из предметности частного случая. Когда обобщенное понятие, например, «несения» не может еще отделиться от представления наиболее привычного «носителя». Именно такой случай как раз по поводу этого действия закрепился в одной очень любопытной весьма древней индусской миниатюре . .^> Следует предположить, что в этом случае композиционный обобщающий контур предстанет не обобщенной динамической схемой, а сохранит в себе элементы полуабстрагированной изобразительности. Именно так дело и обстоит с предельной ясностью на нашей миниатюре. Миниатюра эта изображает сонм райских дев, переносящих с места на места бога Вишну. Изображены девушки, несущие фигуру сидящего мужчины. Действие изображено совершенно точно. Но автору мало этой изобразительности. Он хочет со всей полнотой передать идею того, что девушки несут Вишну < . . .>

Студентският проект #RILA

Author(s): Veneta Savova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 34/2017

СУПСТИТУТИ СВЕТОГ ДРВЕТА У КУЋИ У ТРАДИЦИОНАЛНОЈ КУЛТУРИ БАЛКАНА

Author(s): Dejan Krstić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 19/2021

Traditional Balkan culture is defined by enormous diversity and archaic components in religious practices. One of its aspects is worshipping a tree as a cult object. In open spaces, most obvious examples are: 1. holy votive trees, so called zapisi or obroci which are dedicated to the feasts of smaller and larger social communities, 2. trees planted at graves (beside other grave marks) and 3. using of fruitful trees from a family house’s yard or wider surroundings in various customs. However, sometimes, in various occasions, instead of holy trees substitutes are used: parts of trees and wooden objects that symbolize trees, which have their roles in various rituals. This paper deals with substitutes of holy trees that are either brought into the house occasionally or they are constantly present in the house making the space sacred to some extent. Sometimes this is not obvious, but it becomes clear in custom or ritual context. The substitutes include 1. Christmas badnjak tree and its parts, 2. a small New Years (Christmas) tree branch, 3. a ceiling wooden beam 4. entrance door and its parts 5. the icon of a family patron saint 6. paskurnik – a stamp used for decorating of ritual breads 7. a small wedding day tree branch. Their presence in the house brings about a co-existence of humans and a deity embodied in a holy tree. Using ethnographic material and comparing to mythological elements in world religions, this paper shows that the core of religious worshiping of holy trees and their substitutes in the Balkan is a religious idea of the Father almighty, a supreme solar deity’s presence in the tree.

Сусрет са другим у Књизи о Рути

Author(s): Božović Nenad / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2020

The main hypothesis of this paper consists of the notion that the Book of Ruth is appealing for a new perception of “The Other”, in this particular case of Moabites as “The Other”. The term “Other” is used in a sense in which it is used in sociological research (identity studies) and this paper is trying to build a bridge between two realities. By building a positive image of the Moabites who are in most of the Bible the designated as The Enemy, the Book of Ruth is a valuable resource for studying the process of reevaluation of “the Other” and an appeal for a new experience of “The Other”.

СУФИЙСКИЕ ТАРИКАТЫ В ТУРЕЦКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКЕ (1923–1950 ГГ. )

Author(s): Ilshat Gabitovich Saetov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3 (2)/2013

The article outlines the situation around Sufi brotherhoods in the period of dissolution of the Sublime Porte and analyses in general the condition of Islam and Sufis under the secular regime in 1923–1950, i.e. in the period of the most aggressive actions of laicists during the post-Ottoman regime in Turkey.

Сфера sacrum у художньому дискурсі Марії Матіос

Author(s): Halyna Żukowska / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 7/2019

The article discusses the features of the artistic interpretation of the sacrum spherein the prose of Maria Matios, in particular in the stories „Solodka Darusia” („SweetDarusia”) and „Maizhe Nikoly Ne Navpaky” („Almost never the other way round”). Theauthor artistically comprehends the tragedy of human destiny against the backdrop ofbloody history of the twentieth century, the author deeply immerses in the psychologicalbeing of a woman, Maria Matios who is looking for the meanings of the phenomenon ofhuman life, which is the most extraordinary because, according to the Christian doctrine,given by God.It is revealed that the sphere of sacrum in the analyzed artistic texts is fi rst of all rootedin the refl ection of purely religious folk experience, which is expressed through the use ofreligiously marked concepts, symbols, allusions in texts. In the spirit of Christian doctrine,the characters of Maria Matios’ undergo a purifi cation process through suff ering: somehave their cross to bear, others rebel, being in extreme situations. The image of God inthe works of Maria Matios is ambivalent, it combines the good and evil in itself, whileHis will remains incomprehensible to a mortal human. The author makes no sense of theopposition sacred – profane, confi rming the axiological ambivalence of the sacred. It wasinvestigated that the writer, besides purely religious segments, gives sacred statuses tohuman feelings, land, water, music, etc. The all-embracing nature of the sphere of sacrumin the prose of Maria Matios extends not only to the world of the alive, but also to theworld of the deceased where there are the souls of the deceased.The functional load of the sacrum sphere in the stories of Maria Matios „SolodkaDarusia” („Sweet Darusia”) and „Maizhe Nikoly Ne Navpaky” („Almost never the otherway round”) is deepened by ethno-national coloring in which the sacred and profaneare especially converging and interpenetrating, where the processes of sacralizationand desacralization are constantly taking place, where Christianity and paganism areclosely intertwined. The universal formula of the sacred worldview, embodied in the artistic discourse of Maria Matios, became the triad of theocentrism – anthropocentrism –ethnocentrism.

СЪВРЕМЕННАТА БЪЛГАРСКА ПРАВОСЛАВНА ИКОНОПИС МЕЖДУ САКРАЛНОТО И ПРОФАННОТО

Author(s): Dimitar Dobrevski,Russana Goleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 20/2021

For centuries now has the Bulgarian iconography prevailed and continued its development through the ebbs and flows generated by historical circumstances. Following years of aggressive atheism promoted by the communist regime, today the ground is fertile, it seems, for its continuum. Although, is this truly so? Despite the existence of specialized academic education in iconography, and the multitude of iconographic programs affiliated with churches and centers for education and skill development, a variety of problematic roadblocks still exists. On one hand, this report intends to generate discussion through the questions it raises, on the other hand, it traces the creative search, creative doubts implicit in the discipline. Additionally, an attempt was made to present a broad picture of the leading practices and tendencies in Orthodox Christian iconography in present day Bulgaria.

Съвременната святост: история, образи, символи, практики

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian,Russian,Polish,Greek, Modern (1453-)

The subject of holiness and its historical and contemporary dimensions has proven to be a cross point for the research interests of academics with a different academic background profile - theologians and historians, anthropologists and sociologists, art historians and pedagogues. This allowed the discussions to cross the boundaries of the single disciplines and to outline a rich and multidimensional image of research phenomenon. The vast variety of positions proved how beneficial could be the "Scientific diversity" and the lack of paradigmatic dogmatism outlined by the academic tolerance has turned this first conference into a forum for free exchange of views and opinions. This was particularly important for young scientists involved, for which the access to such scientific forums is often limited by institutional ones or other reasons. The collection we bring to the attention of readers reflects the current state of scientific thought on the theme of holiness.

Съвременниците на борбата за независима българска църква – за какво всъщност говорят те (Никола Сапунов и Иван Найденов)

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 20/2020

This paper uncovers a slightly different picture of the struggle for an independent Bulgarian Church and deals with the texts of two of its participants: the memoir and diary of Nikola Sapunov (1815–1861) and the correspondence of and some other texts by Ivan Naydenov (1834–1910). Apart from patriotism, martyrdom and political plans, which are also often problematized, there are also personal partialities, hostilities, ambitions, and financial motives. For many activists, the authority of the Ottoman Sultan (who was also a Caliph, the religious leader of all Muslims) and keeping his firman in force were very important. The confessional mobility within Christianity characterized the life of Sapunov and some other activists generated tensions and polemics, but not clashes on a great scale. The relations with foreign factors, primarily Russia, were also important. They were complicated and included not only different forms of interferences, but also deliberate demands for such an intervention and efforts to provoke it and follow foreign models, mostly the Greek one. Keywords: Nikola Sapunov, Ivan Naydenov, Bulgarian Church, confessional mobility, financial motives.

Съкращения

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 57-58/2018

Сън по време на война. Чочарка

Author(s): Nevena Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2021

The text is dedicated to two movies based on Alberto Moravia’s book “Ciociara”. The author examines some folklore motifs through which the role of the woman is presented. The analysis also includes the dream of a wedding, which transforms the understanding of time-space relationship. Outlining authentic folklore motifs in the film narrative is in the centre of the study, together with the original presentation of the person having the wedding dream, which forms the visual core of the film. Central point in the text is the relation between reality and the way it is experienced by the dreamer.