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Shia places of pilgrimage in Sunni environment (Iraqi Kurdistan border regions as a case study)
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Alexeev A.
The presented paper deals with the current religious situation at the Iraqi-Iranian border and describes existing worship practics and pilgrimage (ziyarat) to sacred tombs of Shia Imams descendats (imamzada), located at the area.
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Otakulov E., Шаги/Steps 2025 Т. 11 № 4 С. 15–34
This article analyses the origin and development of the legend of Charlemagne’s journey to Jerusalem and Constantinople. Its roots lie in the ninth-century Frankish historiography as authors have transformed Charlemagne’s diplomatic exchanges with the East into narrative centered on Caliph Harun al Rachid concession of jurisdiction over the holy sites in Jerusalem. The evolution of ...
Added: October 15, 2025
Glushkov A., Шаповалов М. С., Новейшая история России 2025 Т. 15 № 2 С. 473–486
The article is dedicated to the relationship between modernization and Orthodox pilgrimage in Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Reflecting on the interconnectedness of modernization processes, transportation development, and pilgrimage practices, the authors aim to address several related questions: Did modernization and new forms of transportation alter ...
Added: November 10, 2024
Lebedeva S., Скиф. Вопросы студенческой науки 2020 № 6 (46) С. 326–329
Two contemporary approaches to understanding a complex concept of “religious tourism” are discussed in the article. Moreover, we examined the relationship of the concept with the term “pilgrimage”, which is quite close to “religious tourism” in its meaning. This type of tourism may become one of the possible solutions for the development and popularization of ...
Added: May 7, 2024
Alexandrova N., Вестник Института востоковедения РАН 2022 № 4 С. 100–19
This paper analyzes the use of the word caitya in three versions of Sanskrit “Lalitavistara”, one of the main Buddhist hagiographic texts. The fact of the existence of three versions, one Sanskrit version (IX c.) and two Chinese versions (IV and VII c.) allows you to track the dynamics of changes both in the set ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Alexandrova N., Studia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религии 2022 № 1 С. 30–43
The cult of Buddha relics found its diverse reflection in the literature of thе period of wide spread of Buddhism in India. It was one of the manifestations of the entire complex of Buddhist culture closely related to its other forms. Multiple descriptions of sacred places contained in the texts of Chinese pilgrims to India ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Артамонов Ю. А., Gippius A., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2022 № 1(87) С. 115–137
The article is the first in a series of publications devoted to the Slavonic-Russian graffiti of the 11th - 15th centuries found in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Constantinople. Along with a briefreview oftheir study, the reader is offered a description of eight inscriptions revealed in 2008-2011 in the eastern segment of the south gallery. ...
Added: November 18, 2022
Preobrazhenskaya A., Studi Slavistici 2022 Т. XIX № 2 С. 27–50
The 12th-cnetury pilgrimage of hegumen Daniil to the Holy Land is the Russian earliest written journey to Jerusalem. The pilgrimage has been studied widely, especially because of the multiple measurements, which Daniil used for describing the places he visited. No other Russian pilgrim, who went to Constantinople or Jerusalem after Daniil, was so much interested ...
Added: October 28, 2022
Беккин Р. И., Shnyrkova A., Вестник МГИМО Университета 2022 Т. 15 № 1 С. 230–248
: The research aims to assess the prospects for the development of Islamic tourism in Africa. The authors analyze the notion and features of Islamic tourism and identify key differences between “Islamic tourism” and “Halal tourism.” The authors define “Islamic tourism” as a type of tourism that includes travels for any purpose under Islamic principles. ...
Added: July 18, 2022
Alexandrova N., Studia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религии 2021 № 1 С. 29–48
Miracle tales are often found in the texts of Chinese pilgrims
who visited India in the 5th – 7th centuries. The role of “miracle” in the world
outlook and the text of Buddhist pilgrim looks also structurally determined.
One can trace a certain consistency in “embedding” stories of miracles into the
overall structure of the text. Being associated with ...
Added: April 24, 2021
Mitko A., Гуманитарные ведомости ТГПУ им. Л.Н. Толстого 2019 № 1(29) С. 30–39
The development of Russian legislation governing pilgrimage activities actualizes a certain range of problems, the solution of which involves the missionological analysis of basic terminology. The need for this kind of analysis is due to the varying degrees of certainty of some legal concepts related to religious activities. In most cases, laws provide precise definitions ...
Added: October 15, 2020
Ivanov S. A., В кн.: Византий и Византия: провинциализм столицы и столичность провинции.: СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. Гл. 9 С. 203–235.
«Книга Паломник» рассматривается в статье как результат столкновения двух подходов: стандартного нарратива, предлагавшегося экскурсоводом по Константинополю, и ответов этого экскурсовода на нестандартные вопросы, которые задавал ему Антоний. «Голос» гида хорошо различим не только благодаря вкрапленным в древнерусский текст грецизмам (их число значительно больше, чем это казалось его издателю Х.Лопареву), но также по причине множества стереотипных ...
Added: June 9, 2020
Kormina J., , in: Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice.: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. Ch. 5 P. 143–162.
According to a recent survey conducted in November 2013 by a non-government polling organization, the Levada-Center in Russia, although 68% of respondents identified themselves as religious and Orthodox, 62% of those Orthodox Christians claimed they had never taken communion.
There are many different ways to interpret this data. Church representatives would criticize the majority, who are ...
Added: February 19, 2018
Ivanova J., Артикульт 2015 № 20 (4-2015) С. 0–0
Τhe paper analyzes models of space in contemporary pilgrimage, impacted with
media images and mass representations of the past. Francigena way (Italy) is species of
renovated pilgrimage as channel of medieval interest, so we clarify particular place of the pilgrimage in the field of historical reconstructions. We prove, that Francigena discourse combines in unusual way pilgrimage and ...
Added: March 12, 2016
Alexeev A., St. Petersburg Annual of Asian and African Studies 2015 Vol. 3 P. 137–146
This article deals with the Shia-Sunni interaction in north-eastern Iran (Khorasan) and Central Asia. The Sunni-Shia disputes in the area go back to the Middle Ages and after the establishment of Shia dynasty of Safawids (1501 -- 1722) in Iran and Sunni dynasty of Shaibabids (1501 -- 1601) and Ashtarkhanis (1601 -- 1785) in Mawara ...
Added: September 23, 2015
М.: Центр стратегической конъюнктуры, 2015.
Сборник статей подготовлен на основе материалов конференции "Принципы религиозного наставничества в современном исламе", проведенной Российским государственным гуманитарным университетом 25 ноября 2014 г. Авторы оценивают историю и современное состояние института религиозного наставничества в шиизме, его политическую, экономическую. социальную и гендерную составляющую. Анализируются причины и факторы эволюции данного института, перспективы его развития и возникающие перед ним проблемы. ...
Added: April 9, 2015
Марченко А. М., , in: Методологія, теорія та практика соціологічного аналізу сучасного суспільства.: Kharkov: ХНУ имени В.Каразина, 2014. P. 289–294.
The article examines intercultural perception during the Hasidic pilgrimage in Ukraine on the examples of Uman and Medzhybizh. Pilgrimage is defined as a form of religious tourism, which is specifically expressed in the role of the sacred - the pilgrims do not need encounters with the Other (cross-cultural interaction), they search for the direct presence ...
Added: March 28, 2015
Alla Marchenko, Judaica Ukrainica 2014 No. 3 P. 60–80
In this article, principal attention is paid to the study of the Hasidic pilgrimage in contemporary Ukraine using the examples of two settlements, Uman and Medzhybizh. Hasidic pilgrimages remain ambiguous: on one hand, they are still unknown to many social scientists due to the speciicity and closed nature of the Hasidic community; on the other ...
Added: March 28, 2015
Kormina Jeanne, Archives de sciences sociales des religions 2013 Vol. 162 P. 95–119
In post-Soviet Russia, as the society underwent rapid and crucial social changes, secular political elites and the broader public paid exceptional attention to the Orthodox elders as part of the process of looking for the “usable past”. This past would become the foundation of a new national myth, which was greatly needed at that time. ...
Added: May 6, 2013
Kormina Jeanne, , in: Redefining Pilgrimage – New perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Pilgrimages.: Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. P. 127–142.
The charismatic authority of living saints, startsy, poses a challenge to the official Church, whose legitimacy is based, using classical Max Weber’s typology, on the legal-rational type of authority. At the same time, the church tends to represent itself as a traditional pre-modern (and even anti-modern) institution in order to stress its role as a ...
Added: April 29, 2013
Артамонов Ю., Gippius A., Зайцев И., В кн.: 1150 лет российской государственности и культуры. Материалы к Общему собранию Российской академии наук, посвященного Году российской истории (Москва, 18 декабря 2012 г.).: М.: Наука, 2012. С. 282–293.
Стаья содержит обзор древнерусских надписей-граффити XI-XV вв. в церкви св. Софии в Константинополе (Стамбуле) в форме виртульной «экскурсии» по галереям храма. ...
Added: February 26, 2013
Kormina Jeanne, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 2012 Vol. 77 No. 1 P. 142–144
Critical review of the book on anthropology of pilgrimage. ...
Added: February 7, 2013
Voronina Y., Le Porche. Bulletin de l’Association des Amis de Jeanne d’Arc et Charles Péguy 2010 No. 33 P. 64–65
The paper analyses Ch. Péguy’s impact on ideas and works of Mauriac expressed in his journalistic writings. ...
Added: December 17, 2012
Kormina J., / Series HUM "Humanities". 2012. No. 04.
The article analyzes the process of creation and promotion of a new type of saints, the so-called startsy (the elders), which emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church at the end of the 1990s. It focuses on debates about the “styles” of sanctity addressed by the term starets that are supported by different groups of believers. ...
Added: August 27, 2012