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Bioethical Issues as Triggers of Religious Transformation in Orthodox Christianity. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT The advent of new biomedical technologies has given rise to an emerging area of sociocultural discourse. The sociocultural perception of these technologies is contingent upon a number of factors, including the prevailing attitudes within dominant religious traditions. Religious bioethics is fundamentally distinct from secular bioethics.
Tarabrin R.
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Atran S.
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Rosyjska Cerkiew Prawosławna a imperialna polityka Kremla [PDF]

Przegląd Geopolityczny, 2023
The purpose of this article is to clarify the role of the Russian Orthodox Church as an institution supporting the Russian Federation's international policy activities.
Sylwester Woźniak
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Christian vocation and social life: formulation of the problem in the activities of the group of “32” St Petersburg priests [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2020
The article analyzes the church situation in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century and the first attempts of the Russian Orthodox Church to influence the country’s public life.
Yulia Balakshina
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“Earthly life continues, full of incredible labour...” Letters from metropolitan Elevferiy (Bogoyavlensky) of Lithuania and Vilna to metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2023
The publication introduces into scientific circulation four letters from Metropolitan Eleutherius (Bogoyavlensky) of Lithuania and Vilna to the Deputy Patriarchal Locum Tenens Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky). The letters are dated 1934. The author of
Andrey Kostryukov
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Peter and Paul Brotherhood in Germany: history and mission problems [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института
This article is devoted to the study of the missionary activities of the Peter and Paul Brotherhood in Germany in 1948 — early 1950. This article is the first study of the activities of the brotherhood.
Kinstler A. V.
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Symbolic-allegorical defi nitions and metaphorical images of the Church in the newfound composition about Patriarch Nikon of the end of the XVII century. [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2015
In the last decades of the XVIIth century in the situation of increasing absolutism, deepening processes of Russian culture secularization and western infl uencing the adherents of Orthodoxy, the patriarch circle writers, who fought for the purity of the ...
Sevast'ianova Svetlana
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Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019

Religions, 2020
In 1919, three Ugandan Anglicans converted to Orthodox Christianity, as they became sure that this was Christianity’s original and only true form. In 1946, Ugandan Orthodox Christians aligned with the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Tutorskiy   +1 more
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Angažman Nezavisne Države Hrvatske na međunarodnom priznanju Hrvatske pravoslavne crkve 1942-1944. [PDF]

Токови историје, 2019
This paper analyses the establishing of the Croatian Orthodox Church (HPC) and the campaign for its international recognition. The research is based on rarely used historical documents from collections of the Political Archives of the German Ministry ...
Aleksandar Stojanović, Rastko Lompar
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A brief review of noncanonical Orthodox jurisdiction in force on territory of Samara Metropolia

Studia Humanitatis, 2017
The article reviews noncanonical orthodox organizations, communities of believers and clerics included into noncanonical orthodox jurisdiction in force on the territory of Samara Metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Bochkov Pavel Vladimirovich
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