Lvov typographies in the first half of the XVIIth century made efforts to promote and increase the level of teaching in the Kyiv Metropolitanate. Reformers from Lvov led a crusade to renew the custom of proclaiming the Word of God, including through the selection and printing of appropriate patristic translation works and various church books, which were escorted by paratexts...
After the end of the Second Northern War t Malbork Jesuits were performing their Christian ministry in the area of the desolated Pomesanian diocese. The work was launched in extreme living conditions. They started they work immediately after ceasing military actions. The missionaries, preachers and operators were setting off for parishes which were abandoned during the war by...
This article deals with the topic of the vision of the Third Rome and its ruler’s special role, which was described by Philotheus (cir. 1465–1542) in his letter titled Message to the Grand Duke Vasili III. In the article the author presents the historical background and alleged reasons contributing to the growth of power of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 15th and 16th century...
This article presents the Book of Wonders of The Pochaiv Mother Of God Icon, the original which was kept in the Archives of the Dominican Fathers in Krakow and after many years became available to scientists. The records in the book cover the 17th – early 19th century, and primarily focus on the 18th century, when the Icon (1773) was crowned it lent colour on the over...
In this article I am focusing on the identity and belonging of Angolan Christian churches. I am showing how religious and social identities of religious groups and institutions are rooted in multiple sources like social imaginations, memories, territory and affective attachments. These identity dimensions are deeply engaged in shaping social lives in a contemporary Angolan...
Jan Myszkowski received the icon of the Byzantine Mother of God during the Battle of Beresteczko (1651). The icon was made at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The painting was placed in the parish church in Dzierzgów in the diocese of Cracow. In 1664, tears appeared in the painting, which was considered as a wonderful phenomenon. The Cracow Bishop Andrzej Trzebicki...
In this article I am focusing on the identity and belonging of Angolan Christian churches. I am showing how religious and social identities of religious groups and institutions are rooted in multiple sources like social imaginations, memories, territory and affective attachments. These identity dimensions are deeply engaged in shaping social lives in a contemporary Angolan...
Lvov typographies in the first half of the XVIIth century made efforts to promote and increase the level of teaching in the Kyiv Metropolitanate. Reformers from Lvov led a crusade to renew the custom of proclaiming the Word of God, including through the selection and printing of appropriate patristic translation works and various church books, which were escorted by paratexts...
This article deals with the topic of the vision of the Third Rome and its ruler’s special role, which was described by Philotheus (cir. 1465–1542) in his letter titled Message to the Grand Duke Vasili III. In the article the author presents the historical background and alleged reasons contributing to the growth of power of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 15th and 16th century...
This article deals with the question of Taiping religion in the work of John Scarth coming from 1860, which was published before the fall of Hong Xiuquan. This is an original approach to the topic due to the fact that the author is openly sympathetic toward the movement. It is in contrast to the dominant narrative from the period, that depicted Taipings as revolutionaries and...
After the end of the Second Northern War t Malbork Jesuits were performing their Christian ministry in the area of the desolated Pomesanian diocese. The work was launched in extreme living conditions. They started they work immediately after ceasing military actions. The missionaries, preachers and operators were setting off for parishes which were abandoned during the war by...
This article deals with the question of Taiping religion in the work of John Scarth coming from 1860, which was published before the fall of Hong Xiuquan. This is an original approach to the topic due to the fact that the author is openly sympathetic toward the movement. It is in contrast to the dominant narrative from the period, that depicted Taipings as revolutionaries and...
Lvov typographies in the first half of the XVIIth century made efforts to promote and increase the level of teaching in the Kyiv Metropolitanate. Reformers from Lvov led a crusade to renew the custom of proclaiming the Word of God, including through the selection and printing of appropriate patristic translation works and various church books, which were escorted by paratexts...
In this article I am focusing on the identity and belonging of Angolan Christian churches. I am showing how religious and social identities of religious groups and institutions are rooted in multiple sources like social imaginations, memories, territory and affective attachments. These identity dimensions are deeply engaged in shaping social lives in a contemporary Angolan...
Jan Myszkowski received the icon of the Byzantine Mother of God during the Battle of Beresteczko (1651). The icon was made at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The painting was placed in the parish church in Dzierzgów in the diocese of Cracow. In 1664, tears appeared in the painting, which was considered as a wonderful phenomenon. The Cracow Bishop Andrzej Trzebicki...
This article deals with the topic of the vision of the Third Rome and its ruler’s special role, which was described by Philotheus (cir. 1465–1542) in his letter titled Message to the Grand Duke Vasili III. In the article the author presents the historical background and alleged reasons contributing to the growth of power of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 15th and 16th century...
This article presents the Book of Wonders of The Pochaiv Mother Of God Icon, the original which was kept in the Archives of the Dominican Fathers in Krakow and after many years became available to scientists. The records in the book cover the 17th – early 19th century, and primarily focus on the 18th century, when the Icon (1773) was crowned it lent colour on the over...
Contemporary paganism, like other new religious movements, includes theoretical explanations and substantiations of the doctrines created by ideologists of associations, oral speeches of leaders, replicated in the form of narratives, electronic carriers, fixed prophecies, and writings of adherents (usually within the first generation). Russian paganism of the XXth–XXIst centuries...
Since 1980s the Irish historiography became an arena of rather intensive polemics on the subject of so called “revisionism”, provoked by the attempts of some academic historians to literally revise and “de-mythologize” the key events and personalities of the Irish history. One of such is the Irish revolution of 1916–1923. How should it be interpreted, as a political or a...
The main aim of this article is to verify the tenets of the interpretation of Catharism which is getting more and more popular in the recent historiography, assuming that Cathar doctrine appeared independently from the Bogomil influence, as a result of different exegesis of the Holy Scripture. According to this interpretation that emerged in 1950s, the Cathars were evangelic...
An article investigates the role of religion in life of Belarusian emigrants in Argentina. The key subject of the research is an analysis of the Orthodox Church development and Belarusians’ participation in its activity. Besides, the author describes the role of certain Belarusian Orthodox priests serving in South America (Aphanasy Martos, Walentin, Iwaszewicz). The author...
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Russian political and military projects between 1789 and 1791. These projects were represented as different notes, letters, orders of Grigory Potemkin and foresaw the initiation and usage of the orthodox population of the south-eastern parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth revolts. They were precursory approved by Ekaterina II...
An article investigates the role of religion in life of Belarusian emigrants in Argentina. The key subject of the research is an analysis of the Orthodox Church development and Belarusians’ participation in its activity. Besides, the author describes the role of certain Belarusian Orthodox priests serving in South America (Aphanasy Martos, Walentin, Iwaszewicz). The author...
Contemporary paganism, like other new religious movements, includes theoretical explanations and substantiations of the doctrines created by ideologists of associations, oral speeches of leaders, replicated in the form of narratives, electronic carriers, fixed prophecies, and writings of adherents (usually within the first generation). Russian paganism of the XXth–XXIst centuries...