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- Title
PAGAN DİNİ EKSENİNDE KİEV RUSYASI'NIN HRİSTİYANLAŞMASI VE SİYASİ SONUÇLARI.
- Authors
MENGÜÇ, Serkan
- Abstract
Our study examines the Christianisation of Russia and its political effects, taking into account the general character of the former pagan Slavic religion. In this context, it is important to reveal the general characteristics of ancient Russian pagan religion. Because the Eastern Slavs and the Russian people, who emerged from its nucleus, had an Indo-European pagan faith until Christianity. This belief was polytheistic and obviously determined the pre-Christian Russian lifestyle and political consciousness. This way of life, which was open to elements of violence as well as peaceful fertility culture, was replaced by Christianity when the existing pagan religion could not be reformed. At first, missionaries from Bulgaria and the Varyags in the service of the Byzantine emperor became the carriers of this new religion to Kiev, while Christianity gained serious momentum in the X th century under the patronage of Knyagina Olga. However, this new faith, which was first opposed by pagan adherents, became the official religion of the country only during the reign of Knez Vladimir. As a result of this situation, the way for Christianity was paved, and the knez decided on Byzantine Christianity due to political calculations. While this process created a clergy class loyal to Byzantium, they imposed new responsibilities on the knez in accordance with Christianity. In this way, while the responsibilities towards the subjects were added to the military leader qualification, justice and legislation became the new elements that determined the function of the knezes, and the care of the poor and orphans was also left to the responsibility of these leaders. However, despite all these efforts of the church to transform, pre-Christian flaws were not completely abandoned, which legitimised violence in the eyes of the rulers and created a potential where humanist attitudes could easily be overturned.
- Publication
Kırıkkale University Journal of Social Sciences, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
2146-2879
- Publication type
Article