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Демонизация божеств: влияние христианского дуализма на тюркомонгольскую и финно-угорскую религиозно-мифологические системы
Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2024. Т. 42. № 2. С. 118–143.
Gridneva M. V.
This article deals with the problem of the influence of dualistic religions over non‑dualistic ones. The main point of the author is that each non‑dualistic religion contains some difficult and complex characters who are venerated as guardian gods but who could be easily demonised under the influence of the dualistic worldviews. The reason for such demonisation is a relative simplicity of dualism that explains everything in the categories as ‘ Good’ and ‘ Evil’ that do not
exist in non‑dualistic religions. Therefore, as the author argues, dualistic religion always affects the non‑dualistic one when they meet.
The research takes the example of Turco‑Mongol and Finno‑Ugrian mythologies, and the author observes characters of such gods as Erlik and Keremet before and after they were affected by the Christian narrative.
Абейсекера С. Х., Обсерватория культуры 2026 Т. 23 № 2 С. 176–188
This article explores the iconography and artis tic features of the monumental paintings of Sigiriya, a Sri Lankan architectural and landscape monument, mean ing “lion rock” in Sinhalese. On the fl at summit of a rock plateau, rising almost 200 meters above the surround ing plain in the very center of the island, in the ...
Added: June 12, 2026
Moroz A., Воробьев В. А., Braginskaya N. et al., М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2026.
We have titled this collection “Roads and Crossroads”, referring to the academic landscape and, above all, to Sergei Yuryevich’s own trajectory within it — the evolution of his scholarly thought, from his earliest publications of abstracts for presentations at the Tartu schools to the monographs of the 2010s and 2020s. The honoree’s scholarly paths form ...
Added: April 8, 2026
Malinov A. V., СПб.: Интерсоцис, 2026.
This monograph explores contemporary forms of national consciousness among the indigenous population of the Altai Mountains, in particular, the attempts to formulate an "Altai philosophy." It reveals their mythological content, partly linked to ancient mythological models and partly formulated anew. To study contemporary forms of mythological thinking, the project of ethnosophy is applied—a discipline that ...
Added: January 25, 2026
Alexandre Alexandrovich Loktionov, Ekaterina Vladimirovna Alexandrova, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 2025 Vol. 68 No. 1-2 P. 1–31
This article brings together the evidence for justice in Ancient Egypt as a crucial liminal sphere of interaction between the worlds of the living and the supernatural. It argues that justice provided a conceptual and physical environment that lay at the heart of a belief framework centred on integrating beings who were alive and beings ...
Added: November 17, 2024
Kuvshinskaya Y. M., Заикина А. А., Фролова Е. Е. et al., Издательский дом "Неолит", 2023.
Книга вводит в оборот новый, до сих пор неизвестный и весьма обширный полевой материал, записанный в ходе фольклорных экспедиций в примыкающих друг к другу областях России и Беларуси (полевые исследования 2013—2019 гг. проводились в Смоленской, Брянской, Псковской областях Российской Федерации и Могилевской и Витебской областях Республики Беларусь). Сборник включает тексты так называемой несказочной прозы: рассказы ...
Added: January 15, 2024
Fomin I. V., В кн.: Диалоги о культуре и искусстве: Материалы XI Всероссийской научно-практической конференции (с международным участием)Ч. 1.: Пермь: Пермский государственный институт культуры, 2021. С. 348–353.
In this study, an attempt will be made to analyze how elements of Rus-sian folklore are reproduced within the framework of interactive works. Methodological-ly, the study is based on the achievements of the Russian formal school, as well as on the human studies of Espen Orset, Jesper Yule and Mark Wolf. At the beginning of ...
Added: April 10, 2023
Rezvykh P. V., Тахо-Годи Е., В кн.: Россия - Германия: литературные встречи (после 1945 года).: М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2022. С. 515–538.
The article raises for the first time the question of scientific contacts between A.F. Losev and the outstanding German classical philologist Bruno Snell (1896–1986). The analysis demonstrates that Russian thinker kept the constant interest in the works of his German colleague during half a century, since the middle of 1920-ies. Losev’s attention to the work ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Vereshchagina N., Вестник Пермского национального исследовательского политехнического университета. Культура, история, философия, право 2018 № 1 С. 11–18
The article covers the methods of making extraterrestrial images. The image of an alien was formed in the XIX century which is proved by the evolution of Sci-Fi stories, references to the contacts with the forms of alien life in media and the first scientific projects of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (Johann C.F. Gauss, Joseph ...
Added: September 21, 2022
Дувакин Е. Н., Nurullin R., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2022 Т. 26 № 1 С. 353–375
This article examines ancient Mesopotamian sources, both written and iconographical, that deal with the figures the Babylonians saw in the face of the Moon. It is argued that, contrary to a widely held opinion, the drawing of the moon on a Seleucid tablet from Uruk (VAT 7851) does not depict a dragon or a mythical ...
Added: June 24, 2022
Moroz A., Словесность и история 2021 № 2 С. 75–87
The article is based on field data from Russian North. The subject of the article is the problem
of the relationship between the living and the deceased. The main goal of the article is to
show how dream stories transform the Russian peasants’ idea about the possibility for the
deceased to visit their living kin in order to ...
Added: September 28, 2021
Kraevskaya N., В кн.: Орнаментика в артефактах традиционных культур. Материалы Пятнадцатых Санкт-Петербургских этнографических чтений.: СПб.: ИПЦ СПбГУТД, 2016. С. 133–136.
This paper presents various ideas and findings of the research project (grant of the Russian Fond for Humanitarian Sciences №14-24-09002) focused on comprehension of ornamental patterns of weaving by Thai people residing on the territory of Vietnam. Formation of the detailed inventory of ornamental motifs, their classification along with determination of their symbolic meaning and ...
Added: September 11, 2021
Kraevskaya N., В кн.: Независимый Вьетнам: национальные интересы и ценности.: М.: ИДВ РАН, 2021. С. 377–391.
The article discusses the research results of the traditional cultural realities of the Thai ethnic group residing in Vietnam, which are reflected both in folklore and mythological texts, and in the ornamental system of hand weaving, the most typical traditional Thai craft associated with ritual practice.
The research allowed us to identify the majority of ornamental ...
Added: September 10, 2021
Гринцер Н. П., Konson G., В кн.: Art History in the Context of Other Sciences in Modern World: Parallels and Interaction.: M.: Information and Publishing House Filin, 2020. С. 644–653.
In the interview, several modern trends in classical studies are discussed with a special emphasis on investigation of the development and internal structure of Homeric epic. Homeric studies are traditionally focused on the so-called “Homeric question” that deals with the problem of authorship and the dichotomy of oral or written genesis of Homeric text. Nowadays, ...
Added: May 9, 2021
Timashov K., Международный журнал исследований культуры 2020 Т. 1 № 38 С. 216–233
Roland Barthes’ works on cinema remain insufficiently understood. The aim of the present article is to reconstruct his theory of cinema, focusing on semiotic issues and tracing its development in the general evolution of his thoughts from so called pre-structuralist to the structuralist period. I set to analyze well-known articles from the book “Mythologies” (1957), ...
Added: May 5, 2020
Smirnov I., Вестник древней истории 2019 Т. 79 № 4 С. 958–973
The article discusses the changes undergone by historical themes and heroes of ancient Chinese history in the poetic texts of the Ming period (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries) collected by the noted anthologist Shen De-qian (1637–1769) in his Ming shi be cai. In later verse, poets increasingly tend to abandon the simple historical analogy – which ...
Added: March 27, 2020
Ladynin I. A., Аристей. Aristeas: Вестник классической филологии и античной истории 2019 Т. ХХ С. 53–62
The article deals with a plot in Plutarch’s Septem Sapientium Convivium: the sage Bias answers to the Egyptian king Amasis, to whom an Ethiopian king sent “an extraordinary and awful demand… to drink up the ocean”, that he had to “tell the Ethiopian to stop the rivers which are now emptying into the ocean depths, ...
Added: February 16, 2020
Lukianova N., Maria Shteynman, Fell E., Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 2019 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 71–86
The authors seek to contribute to the existing discussion of the communicative function of political memes by bringing into discussion political memes used by opposition leaders in the 2018 Russian presidential election campaigns as examples of memes being purposefully deployed in targeted political communications. Specifically, they focus on Navalny’s use of the ‘yellow duck’ meme. ...
Added: November 25, 2019
Solovyova A., Studia Mythologica Slavica 2019 No. 15 P. 169–192
This article aims to introduce to a wider audience the special and diverse world of Mongolian ritual poetry. Despite the effects of the socialist era and the intensive changes brought about by contact with global culture more recently, contemporary Mongolian society has still preserved a significant space for traditional lifestyle and worldview. The characteristics of ...
Added: October 16, 2019
Matveychev O. A., Антиномии 2018 Т. 18 № 3 С. 67–85
The article explores the ways of developing the Hyperborean problem, which was brought up anew after one-hundred-year break by the thinkers of the late XIX-XX century in connection with the appearance of so-called Arctic hypothesis of the origins of civilization. The Hyperborean problem is examined in a broad historical and political context in connection with ...
Added: August 1, 2019
Uspensky B. A., М.: Common place, 2018.
В этой книге собраны статьи, посвященные поэтике, истории литературы, фольклору, этнографии и мифологии. Разнообразные по своей тематике, все они так или иначе относятся к истории русской культуры (в самом широком смысле этого слова): речь в них идет об истории русской литературы, о технике русского стиха, о русском фольклоре, о мифологических истоках русских экспрессивных выражений и ...
Added: November 26, 2018
Антонов Д. И., Христофорова О. Б., Майзульс М. Р. et al., М.: Издательство "Индрик", 2013.
Альманах «In Umbra: Демонология как семиотическая система» объединяет работы, посвященные мифологическим персонажам — амбивалентным и вредоносным духам, «низшим» божествам, демонам. Представления о незримых врагах — искусителях, вредителях, агентах болезней — играют важную роль в культуре разных народов. С их помощью объясняют многие бедствия и катаклизмы, от личностных до глобальных. В традиционных обществах духи воспринимаются как ...
Added: October 4, 2018