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Title of the article: |
SANCTUARIES IN THE DISCOURSES OF SACRED GEOGRAPHY |
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Author(s): |
Lebedev, V.Yu., Prilutskiy, A.M. |
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Information about the author/authors |
Vladimir Yu. Lebedev — PhD in Philosophy, Docent, Professor, Professor Department of Theology, Institute of Pedagogical Education and Social Technologies, Tver State University, Zhelyabova St. 33, 170100 Tver, Russia. |
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Section |
Theory and history of culture |
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Year |
2024 |
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Volume |
Vol. 72 |
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Pages |
pp. 9–24 |
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Received |
July 11, 2023 |
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Approved after reviewing |
December 30, 2023 |
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Date of publication |
June 25, 2024 |
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DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-72-9-24 |
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Index UDK |
248.158 |
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Index BBK |
86.2 |
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Acknowledgements: The research was supported by an internal grant from A.I. Herzen Russian pedagogical university (project № 26ВГ). |
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Abstract |
The paper explores the phenomenon of sanctuaries from the perspective of religious semiotics. The authors have identified the ambivalence of the perception of a mystical place by folk religion: a mystical place can be simultaneously perceived both as a topos in which ritual is performed, and as an object of worship. At the same time, stable ritualogemes of veneration of mystical places are developed, forming elaborate ritual complexes. Analysis of the mytho-semiotic specificity of narratives about sanctuaries made it possible to propose their typology: places of power, mysterious places, places of refuge, places metonymically associated with special religiously significant events. Specal areas that are dangerous and harmful to humans are considered separately. The study includes analyzing of basic mytheologems that form the discourse of sacred geography. It has been proven that the narrative about sanctuaries is not only formed as a result of the functioning of the mechanisms of mythological hermeneutics characteristic of folk religiosity, but also turns out to be capable of generating new mythological plots. At the same time, a religious studies analysis of the specifics of sacred sites revealed the impossibility of their unambiguous confessional identification due to the presence of syncretic mythologemes in their interpretation. Stories about visiting sacred places and the experiences of various events and states associated with these visits are actively mythologized and become sources for the generating of new semantics and semiotics of sacred geography. |
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Keywords |
Sacred Geography, Places of Power, Sacred Sites, Black Places, Damned Places, Semiotics of Religion, Folk Faith, Folk Eschatology. |
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References |
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