Holy Well in the Sazhnoye Village: The Cult Object in the Focus of Rival Traditions

Platonov, Evgenii

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Holy Well in the Sazhnoye Village: The Cult Object in the Focus of Rival Traditions

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Holy Well in the Sazhnoye Village: The Cult Object in the Focus of Rival Traditions

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S086954150002458-3-1

DOI

10.31857/S086954150002458-3

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Article

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Published

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Evgenii Platonov

Affiliation: The State Hermitage Museum
Address: 34 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg, 191000, Russia

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Etnograficheskoe obozrenie

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181-197

Abstract

The article examines the viewpoints and discourses of various social groups involved in the process of opening up a holy well in the Sazhnoye village, Kursk region, in 1887 Different social groups tried to propagate alternative conceptions about the fact of apparition of the icon in the well. I single out three main viewpoints/discourses: traditional, according to which the icon and water were passed for the vehicle of the holy well and grace; administrative, according to which the objects were considered as the tool of fraud employed by the clergy in order to get an income from pilgrims; and social-scientific, according to which the healing of the pilgrims was ascribed to the quality of mineral components of the water. The confrontation of these positions became the cause of a long and unfruitful struggle between different social groups for the affirmation of a definite clear-cut status of the holy well.

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holy well, icon, apparition, superstition, tradition, mineral water, Synod, pilgrimage

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28.12.2018

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28.12.2018

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GOST	Platonov E. Holy Well in the Sazhnoye Village: The Cult Object in the Focus of Rival Traditions // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie – 2018. – 6 C. 181-197 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/ethnorev/s207987840001646-9-1-en (circulation date: 22.07.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S086954150002458-3
MLA	Platonov, Evgenii "Holy Well in the Sazhnoye Village: The Cult Object in the Focus of Rival Traditions." Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6 (2018):181-197. DOI: 10.31857/S086954150002458-3
APA	Platonov E. (2018). Holy Well in the Sazhnoye Village: The Cult Object in the Focus of Rival Traditions. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie (6), pp.181-197 DOI: 10.31857/S086954150002458-3

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