Passion According to Nationalists
Abstrak
The chapter focuses on the politics of canonization and commemoration of martyrs by the Orthodox churches in the Russian Empire and post-Soviet Estonia. It compares two case studies: the martyrdom of St. Isidor of Iur’ev (fifteenth century), whose cult was revived in the Riga diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in the late imperial period, and that of Ivan Lagovskii, whose execution by the NKVD in 1940 was reinterpreted as martyrdom by the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church–Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (EAOC) in 2011. The chapter argues that these two canonizations were forms of sacralization, such as sacralization of territory and sacralization of person. Comparing the two case studies, the chapter demonstrates that sacralization of territory was more characteristic for St. Isidor’s case, while the sacralization of person underlie the project of new martyrs, carried by the EAOC.
Penulis (1)
Irina Paert
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- CrossRef
- DOI
- 10.5117/9789048570171_ch11
- Akses
- Open Access ✓