Title of the article:

KARL PINGGERA. “HE TRAMPLED DOWN DEATH BY DEATH!” DYING, MOURNING, AND EASTER FAITH IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX TRADITION*

Author(s):

Anatoly N. Lipov

Information about the author/authors

Anatoly N. Lipov — PhD in Philosophy, Researcher of the Aesthetics sector, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Goncharnaya St. 12, bldg. 1, 109240 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0529-3274 E-mail antolip@yandex.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2022

Volume

Vol. 63

Pages

pp. 89–106

Received

May 03, 2021

Approved after reviewing

September 15, 2021

Date of publication

March 28, 2022

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-89-106

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71

Abstract

Rituals are omnipresent. Religions provide answers to death. They interpret death as a transition to another form of existence and form different cultures of the dying person, marking daily transitions as well as turning points such as births, weddings, illness and death. Accompanying the dying person is common to all cultures. At the same time, when creating conditions for a humane and dignified death, it is necessary to take into account the existing cultural and religious-ideological differences between various Christian traditions, consisting in what this accompaniment looks like, what the rituals are before and after the death and how quickly the dead are buried. The translation of the paper raises the overarching issues of dying, death, and mourning in religious studies and attempts to comprehend the existing forms of the final phase of life in various religious beliefs in order to humanize the rituals of death, dying, and mourning, and in particular Easter beliefs and mourning ceremonies in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, in which a central place in prayers or liturgical commemoration of the dead is given to requests for forgiveness of sins and salvation of souls of the dead.

Keywords

Christian understanding of death, Orthodox funeral rites, Orthodox Liturgy of the Dead, folk customs and the Christian message, dying, mourning, Easter faith, Eastern Orthodox traditions, religion, Eucharistic liturgy, Orthodox rites.

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