VISUAL IMAGES IN THE ORTHODOX LITURGY
The paper discusses the visual component of Orthodox worship, its role and place in worship, principles of transmission of religious content, causes and features of symbolism in worship, relationship to the symbol in different cultural and historical conditions. It is concluded that the visual images play leading role in transmission sacred content of religion, which is connected with the peculiarities of religious experience, which is the basis of religion. The author analyzes the forms and ways of expressing religious content through images and symbols, which are considered in aspects of the symbolism of the Liturgy as a whole and its individual elements. Historically variants relation to the symbol in the Liturgy in Byzantium and Russia are also research.
Keywords: visual image, Orthodoxy, ritual, symbolism, reverse perspective
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Issue: 1, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 3
Rubric: RESEARCH REPORTS
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