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| Article name | Canonization of the Russian Church Saints as a Cultural Problem |
| Authors | Yurieva T.V. Doctor of Culturology, Professor, tjurjeva@mail.ru |
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| Section | CULTURE OF RUSSIA AND CHINA |
| UDK | 008(075.8) |
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| Annotation | The problem to be considered in this article can be understood from its title, namely the problem of canonization in the cultural aspect. The author is concerned with canonization as a process of cultural creation, the result of which is a coherent phenomenon, connected with worshiping a saint both in church and artistic forms. It is also suggested that canonization should be understood as not just once-for-all action, which secures a saint’s right to exist in religious culture, but as a long-lasting process in the historical life of the society, changeable depending on historic-cultural paradigm. In this study the author proceeds from a well known but little-studied assumption that both the local and all-Russian socio-cultural specifics revealing many sides of Russian mentality are reflected in the history of canonization and worshiping of saints. That’s why the image of a saint corresponds with the actual, notions and value orientation of the society at the moment of its creation rather than with the actual, connected with life of a historical person, who has been canonized. So the process of canonization can be identified as an artistic activity creating work of arts accomplished according to the canon. The latter can be seen as both a religious and artistic standard, uniting the regularities of different spheres of spiritual activity. The study of historical sources and the personal characteristics of a saint to be shows that the canon gives a real person a shape of a saint according to the religious and political actually different from ones in the saint’s lifetime. The image of a saint is considerably idealized. Such sacral values as prayerfulness, devotion to faith, fasting, alms and sometimes a saint’s secular characteristics are important for hagiography. The secular characteristic include local patriotism, concern for the hometown and its people, military valour. The canonized image of a saint (iconographical image) continues its transformation to the complete and detailed characteristics of a saint’s virtues, which were the most actual and topical for their time and were connected with people’s notion of sanctity. |
| Key words | Russian culture, religion, orthodoxy, church, canon, canonization, holiness, holy, saints, values |
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