Methodological aspects of church and historical researches at the present stage

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Abbot Damaskin (Orlovsky)

Methodological aspects of church and historical researches at the present stage

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In this article are analyzed the methodological approaches and experience of practical decisions in research of destinies of the subjected to repression clergy in the Soviet Russia, applied by Russian Orthodox Church for canonization of the sacred. Considering a historical and hagiographical stage of historical and church researches, the author answers to a question of a place and a role of these researches in a domestic historiography.

Keywords

Russian Orthodox Church, methodology, hagiography, canonization, repressions, clergy, mythologization of historical knowledge.

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Abbot Damaskin (Orlovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich) - secretary of the Synodal Commission for the Canonization of Saints, PhD in History, Moscow; 8-916-902-79-57; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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