A FIGURE OF THE ORTHODOX BISHOP ON THE PAGES OF “THE JOURNAL OF THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHY” DURING THE PERIOD OF LATE STALINISM
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https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.24.264742Abstract
The purpose of the study is to analyze the publications of “The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate” as a means of highlighting the figure of the bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, to elucidate his characteristic features and to study the methods of forming the bishop's personality in the eyes of believers and clerics. The research methodology is based on compliance with the principles of objectivity and systematicity. To realize the goal and set objectives, general scientific methods have been used – analysis, synthesis, generalization, induction, deduction, as well as special methods of historical research – classification and criticism of sources, problem-chronological, comparative and historical. The scientific novelty: an attempt has been made to summarize the materials of “The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate” theoretically, aiming at doing the research on the peculiarities of the bishop personality formation of the Russian Orthodox Church and highlighting his figure during the transformation period of state-church relations in the USSR. The Conclusions. Faced in 1943 with the problem of restoring the church structure, providing hierarchs, overcoming the effects of anti-church and anti-religious propaganda and restoring authority in the eyes of society, the Russian Orthodox Church chose publishing activities on the pages of the official publication as one of the methods of achieving its goals. Among the mass of information, the coverage of the figure of the Orthodox bishop attracts attention. In addition to revealing the chronicle of activities and biographies, these publications were designed to form in the eyes of the clergy and believers a kind of ideal of the bishop, as the Church saw him under the Soviet conditions. In the materials of the magazine, the ideas of church service and state devotion, empathy for believers and cooperation with the totalitarian regime are intertwined. The peculiarity of these materials is the complete ignoring of the period of the 1920s and 1930s and the events connected with the Soviet persecution. At the same time, considerable attention is paid to the struggle with other Orthodox denominations. An important place is occupied by the description of the events of the Soviet-German war.
Key words: Russian Orthodox Church, clergy, bishop, Orthodoxy, Stalinism, biography, periodical press.
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