2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Role of the Russian Orthodoxy in Cultural Integration of the Russian Empire during the 19th century.
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21520739
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Joetsu University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | キリスト教 / 護教論 / 帝国 / 文化統合 / ロシア正教 / 多宗教 / 多民族 |
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| Research Abstract |
Russian Orthodox theology in the first half of the 19th century did not have adequate sense of a mission to build the original apologetics of Russian Orthodoxy, which promoted the cultural integration of the Russian Empire. Moreover, in general, many creative theologians had distanced themselves from the secular power of the Empire. In the 1870s and later, construction of the original apologetics for the Russian Orthodox Church began to be undertaken. Moreover, a systematization of apologetics that might match the uniqueness of Russian Orthodoxy and the contemporary situation came to be oriented beginning approximately from1905. In the background, there arose a growing sense of crisis amongst reformative theologians about excessively conservative principles and the ethnocentrism of the right wing in the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as an increased interest in theology among secular youth students. However, compared with the apologetics literature of western Europe-the quality and quantity of apologetics literature of Russian Orthodoxy, as a circuit of specific dialogue with non-believers-was very limited. The trend of thought of Russian Orthodox theologianswas not necessarily monolithic, and there were several serious conflicts among them. Thus, in general, the efforts of theologians of Russian Orthodoxy to actively engage in promoting the process of cultural integration of the Russian Empire, which consistedof multiconfessional and multiethnic habitants, were very weak.
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Research Products
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