Mission confessions №6 2015

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In the article the contribution of Tavrida scientific archival commission is examined to the study of features of distribution and existence of Islam in Crimea.

Keywords: history of Crimea, islamovedenie, Tavrida scientific arhival commission.

The author considers the specifics of the Russian Orthodox emigration in its diversity. The main attention is paid to the Orthodox immigrants from Russia and their historical in Latin America. At the same time life of some communities of Russian Old Believers is considered. The author dwells on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the preservation of ethnic and confessional Russian identity, the efforts of our compatriots to preserve the native language and national culture.

Keywords: Russian emigrants in Latin America, the Russian diaspora, ethnicity and ethnic identity, historical Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox churches, Orthodox Orthodox Old Believers, whips, Russian.

This topic offers a bibliographical essay on Church-State Relations during the Imperial Era. One reason for the paucity of modern researchers on the management of the Russian Orthodox church is a lack of familiarity with this subject’s vast published and unpublished materials. This essay has two goals: fist, to determine the bibliographical environment in which some of the study of modern Russian Orthodoxy were generated; and second, to indicate some of the peculiarities of that environment which in the past have misled researchers about the church. Nearing completion are dissertations dealing with internal Church affairs, such as the education in Orthodoxy and Enlightenment. (Kleymenov V.A., Isakov A.A., Lebedeva N. A.) Others go beyond the Russian frontier and are concerned with the Russian Rascol Society (Mayorov R.A., Pavlova O. A.) and Metropolitan Platon’s position with regard to the Church Architecture. (Robinov O.Y., Putyatin I.V.) Every-years conferences “Platonovskiye chteniia” demonstrates the great need for ecclesiastical and cultural professional cooperation for the studying of Russian church history. We hope that this essay will contribute in some small way toward encouraging young scholars to devote more attention to the study of Russian church history.

Keywords: Soviet scholarship, modern researchers, secular reform, learned monks, orthodoxy enlightenment, church architecture.

The author considers the basic civilizational and cultural specifics of Islam spreading and functioning in the Crimea and the north-eastern Black Sea region. According to the author’s opinion, the “peripheral” centers of Islam civilization such as Derbent, Volga Bulgaria, Khwarezm influenced these processes, as well as the adoption of Islam by way of state religion of The Golden Horde (Ulus of Jochi) by Uzbek Khan in 1313. The author focuses his attention on the community of Crimean Tatars and Islamic peoples of Eurasian region.

Keywords: Crimea, spreading of Islam, civilizational and cultural specifics, Muslim peoples, generality of historical destiny, Crimean Tatars.

The article considers educational activity of religious organizations in Krasnoyarsk Kray among smaller peoples of the Extreme North. The research hypothesis is that Christians educating activity results in preserving the national language of these ethnic groups and spiritual and moral development of young generation.

Keywords: charismatic movement, educating activity, smaller peoples, revival of spirituality.

Among the spiritual practices the prayer has a special place. The importance of prayers was understood at all times and all religions. In the past century the peculiarities of unions of people in prayer started to be used by politicians in order to declare the desire to establish peaceful relations between nations.

Keywords: spiritual practices, prayer, meditation, yoga.