The King’s Body – Ritual Aspects

By prof. Maria Schnitter Abstract: This paper examines some specific ritual standards concerning Ruler’s body and their theological, cultural, historical and political reasons. It tracks the transition from pre-Christian to early Christian ritual and its subsequent development in the frames of various Christian systems of standards. The paper is also an attempt to use Kantorowicz’ […]

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The Paradoxes of Russian Cultural Development (3)

By Fr. Alexander Schmemann Utopianism In our previous talks, dedicated to the foundations of Russian culture, we have already talked about the two paradoxes of our cultural development – about the contradictions and about the paradoxical manifestation in it of both a kind of maximalism and a kind of minimalism. And we have already said […]

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Solar Myths

These are myths, the main character of which is the sun; in scientific literature, especially in the works of W. Manhardt and other representatives of the mythological school of the 19th century, myths are also called solar myths in which the hero or heroine has solar features, that is, features similar to those of the […]

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