{"title":"The Struggle for Memory: The Khachkar Field of Julfa and Other Armenian Sacred Spaces in Azerbaijan","authors":"Serafim Seppälä","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the last century, the Armenian Church and nation have lost most of their sacred spaces. One of the most peculiar cases is the history and afterlife of the khachkars (crossstones) of Julfa. The cemetery of Julfa was known for its endless unique khachkars and other monuments, constituting an exceptional sacred space in terms of spirituality and art history. The area was systematically and entirely destroyed by Azerbaijan in 2005. In the 2010s, Armenians reacted to the destruction by reviving the memory of Julfan khachkars by erecting their replicas to various locations in Armenia and other countries. As khachkars are supposed to be unique and unrepeatable, this struggle for memory requires an interpretative analysis. The problematics became urgent after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war when hundreds of Armenian monasteries, churches and sacred monuments were left under the control of Azerbaijan. There is no reason to assume that their fate in the long run will be any better than the hundreds of already demolished Armenian churches and monasteries in Azerbaijan.","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114562017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parohia Cofetăria: Industrial, Religious and Communal Space. A Case Study on Patrimony as Inherited from Communism and its Transformations","authors":"M. Bănică","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The fall of communism, more than three decades ago, set in motion a strong religious comeback in Romania. This increase in Romanians practicing religion was felt across all denominations not just the Orthodox. In order to cope with the sudden increase of churchgoers, a large number of places of worship were built in a relatively short period of time. In some places, where material resources were limited, part of the industrial heritage left behind by communism was rearranged and transformed into a religious space (e.g., chapels and monasteries). The case study presented below shows the spectacular transformation of a former food laboratory into an Orthodox chapel in the early 2000s. Even if it is a small town, it reflects many of the questions and dilemmas when reconverting a religious space into a secular space and vice versa, namely: political and religious interference in small semi-rural communities, new forms of community cooperation between believers and members of the clergy, but also advancing modernity and accompanying changes in everyday religious life (la religion en train de se faire – fr). This study also shows how the Orthodox canonical requirements related to the consecration-construction of a sacred space were adapted to a completely atypical space – a sign of the vitality and adaptability of the church at the beginning of the millennium.","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115513766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vladimir Latinovic and Anastacia K. Wooden, Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy?, Volume 1: Historical and Theological Perspectives on the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Dialogue, Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue, Palgrave Macmillan 2021, 386 p., ISBN: 978-3-030-55441-5","authors":"A. Crișan","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123003705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Church on the Hill in Schäßburg/Sighişoara. A Jewel of Architecture and Art-History on a Marginal Spiritual-Liturgical Existence","authors":"Hans Bruno Fröhlich","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Evangelical Church C. A. in Romania has an impressive treasure trove of churches of cultural and art-historical value in Transylvania. One of the most important sacred buildings is the Church on the Hill in Schäßburg/Sighisoara. But although it is a liturgically important space, it has served other purposes over and over again in the course of history. The fact that the Evangelical community became very small after 1989 brought with it the challenge of using this place of worship adequately. In the last few decades – i with the inclusion of the old town of Schäßburg on the list of UNESCO as a World Heritage Site – the Church on the Hill has become a tourist magnet. Culture lovers can listen to contemplative organ concerts. Due to the epidemiological situation, it now serves more and more liturgical purposes.","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134017968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J. David Woodington, The Dubious Disciples. Doubt and Disbelief in the Post-Resurrection Scenes of the Four Gospels, BZNW 241, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2020, 224 S., ISBN 978-3-11-069155-9","authors":"Hans Klein","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"45 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131750756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Makes a Sacred Space Sacred and under What Circumstances Does it Become Desanctified?","authors":"H. Kutzner","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0028","url":null,"abstract":"Als Jugendlicher habe ich einmal so um 1970 herum das „Paradiso“ in Ams terdam besucht. Das war eine in ihren Ausmaßen bemerkenswert geräumige Discothek, die man in einer ehemaligen Kirche eingerichtet hatte. Ich fand das damals mit Anfang 20 bemerkenswert, vielleicht auch ein wenig skurril, aber ansonsten keineswegs außergewöhnlich. Die Melange aus Gefühlen, Assoziationen und Gestimmtheit erinnerten mich an Schülerund Studententre!s in meiner Heimatstadt. Stroblights, bunte Nebelschwaden, Undergroundmusik. Hier konnte ich „eintauchen“; hier fand ich eine Form von sich selbst verlierender ekstatischer Lebens-Sphäre wieder, mit der ich mich identi\"zieren konnte und die mir damals, in jenen Hippie-Zeiten, vertraut war. In einer westdeutschen Kleinstadt besuchte ich in den 1990er Jahren eine Kneipe, die ebenfalls in einer ehemaligen Kirche, einem kleinen und eher unau!älligen Raum aus der Zeit um 1800 untergebracht war. Man hatte sich nicht bemüht, die Prinzipalstücke des Sakralraumes zu entfernen. Die Orgel allerdings war, wie man mir erzählte, zu Zeiten des Umbaus verkauft worden. Dafür hatte man den Altar zum Tresen umfunktioniert. Hinter ihm agierte ein Barkeeper, zapfte, mixte und plauderte. Ein Blick in die Speisekarte sollte die Besucher zum Schmunzeln bringen. Da gab es „Don Camillos Mess-Drink“ neben „Halleluja-Schluck“, „Weihwasser mit Schuss“ und ähnlich Anregendes. Ich kann mich erinnern, mit recht gemischten Gefühlen den gastlichen Ort nach nicht allzu langer Verweildauer wieder verlassen zu haben. Gut, ich war natürlich nicht mehr der gleiche unbefangene Besucher wie damals im „Paradiso“.","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132334971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theodota Nantsou and Nikolaos Asproulis (eds.), The Orthodox Church Addresses the Climate Crisis, Athens & Volos, WWF Greece & Volos Academy Publications 2021, 129 p., ISBN: 978-618-5375-11-9","authors":"Phillip Calington","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124740818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bincy Mathew, The Johannine Footwashing as the Sign of Perfect Love: An Exegetical Study of John 13,1-20, WUNT 2/464, Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, 516 S., ISBN: 978-3-16-155145-1","authors":"Hans Klein","doi":"10.2478/ress-2021-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267433,"journal":{"name":"Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124712833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}