Traditional Russian worldviews explained healing from water sources in terms both Protestants and Catholics would have used elsewhere in Europe: as the grace of God or as the intervention of saints through associated relics or wonder-working icons. Holy wells were freely venerated within parishes until the eighteenth century when Peter the Great and the Holy Synod (the Russian Orthodox Church’s highest governing body) forbade pilgrimage to holy wells in a reformist drive to eradicate religious “superstitions.” This essay employs primary sources to consider how nineteenth-century developments at Russian holy wells and mineral springs related to social class, economics and those eighteenth-century reforms that merged the church with governmen...
While scholarship has traditionally dismissed Russian Orthodoxy either as an otherworldly faith of m...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
Purpose: The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of the system of relations that...
Traditional Russian worldviews explained healing from water sources in terms both Protestants and Ca...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author\u27s experience of traveling on a geolog...
Life-giving springs and The Mother of God Zhivonosen Istochnik / Zoodochos Pege / Balikliyska. Byza...
Through researching the holy fool Saints of Russia this paper hopes to unearth the scope and signifi...
The article outlines the key areas of the charitable and educational activities of the Orthodox Chur...
Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, ką Lietuvoje XX a. tikintieji darydavo su šventinto vandens likučiais. Remi...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
A series of imperial decrees during the 1820s contributed to the spread of the autocratic and synoda...
Holy springs played an immense role in religious tourism globally over centuries. It is widely belie...
Based on a systematic and problem-chronological approach, and drawing on materials from federal and...
The article is devoted to study the Catholic communities of Sisters of Mercy in the Western region o...
While scholarship has traditionally dismissed Russian Orthodoxy either as an otherworldly faith of m...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
Purpose: The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of the system of relations that...
Traditional Russian worldviews explained healing from water sources in terms both Protestants and Ca...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author\u27s experience of traveling on a geolog...
Life-giving springs and The Mother of God Zhivonosen Istochnik / Zoodochos Pege / Balikliyska. Byza...
Through researching the holy fool Saints of Russia this paper hopes to unearth the scope and signifi...
The article outlines the key areas of the charitable and educational activities of the Orthodox Chur...
Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, ką Lietuvoje XX a. tikintieji darydavo su šventinto vandens likučiais. Remi...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
A series of imperial decrees during the 1820s contributed to the spread of the autocratic and synoda...
Holy springs played an immense role in religious tourism globally over centuries. It is widely belie...
Based on a systematic and problem-chronological approach, and drawing on materials from federal and...
The article is devoted to study the Catholic communities of Sisters of Mercy in the Western region o...
While scholarship has traditionally dismissed Russian Orthodoxy either as an otherworldly faith of m...
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems tha...
Purpose: The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of the system of relations that...