title: Presentation of the cult of Christian saints in anti-religious museum exhibitions during the era of the “Great Turn”
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich, Marianna M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-10T10:00:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-10T10:00:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich M. M. Presentation of the cult of Christian saints in anti-religious museum exhibitions during the era of the “Great Turn”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 706–717.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.410
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35598
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article describes the goals, principles and different forms of the presentation of the cult
  of saints in the exhibitions of anti-religious and local history museums in the context of the
  ideological and cultural tasks of museum construction in the early 1930s. The issue of the
  presentation of icons and objects of church worship for anti-religious purposes was extremely
  acute: on the one hand, it was impossible to create an exposition about religion without exhibiting
  artifacts related to it, on the other, these artifacts were supposed to expose religion. After
  the campaign to uncover the “relics”, they were often exhibited in museums for anti-religious
  purposes, but this demonstration most often had the opposite effect. The article analyzes the
  materials of the discussion on the possibility of using icons and religious objects in anti-religious
  exhibitions. The author shows that during the period under study, the contradictions between
  the “anti-religious”, who considered interest in religious art as “grave aestheticism” that
  strengthened religion, and representatives of the so-called “culturalism” who tried to preserve
  and exhibit items of religious culture in museums. Particular attention is paid to studying the
  search for a “third way” in resolving the existing conflict between the classical principles of
  exhibiting religious art and the new so-called an “anti-religious” approach, which was based
  on the comparative study of religions and field anthropological research on popular religiosity.
  The main principles of this “third way”, focused on the preservation and display of items
  of religious culture, were the rejection of their pietistic interpretation, attention to formal art
  analysis, as well as Marxist historical, cultural and sociological analysis.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was written with the support of the Russian Science Foundation — DFG grant No. 21-
  48-04402.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cult of saints
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anti-religious propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anti-religious museums
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the cultural revolution in the USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Presentation of the cult of Christian saints in anti-religious museum exhibitions during the era of the “Great Turn”
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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