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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rohdewald, Stefan

Titel

Die Wiedererfindung des ‚Heiligen Russland‘ im Bildband Fotografische Inszenierungen orthodoxer Religiosität als Verflechtungen zwischen West und Ost im Kalten Krieg

Ist Teil von

• Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 2009, Vol.57 (2), p.221-250

Ort / Verlag

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Biblioscout - Franz Steiner Verlag Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Summary The Reinvention of 'Holy Russia' in Illustrated Coffee-table Books: Changes in Photographic Conceptions of Orthodox Religiosity in the Entanglement between East and West during the 'Cold War' This contribution investigates the development of the roles that photographic illustrations played in Western and Soviet illustrated books featuring the Russian Orthodox Church, concentrating on the years after Stalin's death up to the renaissance of religiosity during the last days of the Soviet Union. [...]in 1982 the Patriarchate asked a Western photographer, who in 1979 had published an impressive book about the Vatican, to produce an outstanding book on the Church for the Western public with his Swiss publishing house. With the positive reception of the genre of illustrated coffee-table books among representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, the photographs not only formed a new image of the Church, but also gave the readers examples of how to practice their renewed religiosity. [...]in transnational and "transimperial" communication with the West, photographs in Soviet publications changed from serving documentary functions and as a means to foster Stalinist statehood to becoming primary expressions of religiosity and political-religious concepts. * Ich danke Natalja Donig (Konstanz/Passau) fflr eine kritische Durchsicht des Textes. 1 Vgl. DEUTSCH KORNBLATT Christianity, Antisemitism, Nationalism": Russian Orthodoxy in a Reborn Orthodox Russia, in: BARKER, ADELE MARIE (Hrsg.): Consuming Russia.