Open AccessMilitary Priest’s Ethos in the Patriotic War of 1812: Mission on the Battlefield
Author(s) -
Dmitry Mikhailovich Latyshev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
obŝestvo: filosofiâ, istoriâ, kulʹtura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2223-6449
pISSN - 2221-2787
DOI - 10.24158/fik.2020.12.10
Subject(s) - ethos , battlefield , rhetoric , context (archaeology) , political science , sociology , identity (music) , state (computer science) , law , aesthetics , history , art , theology , philosophy , ancient history , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
Under the conditions of an anthropological turn in the contemporary scientific idea there can be seen an escalating interest to a “man of 1812”, his behav-iour on the battlefield among all-encompassing vio-lence. One of the main figures translating the mili-tary norms and orders for soldiers was a military priest. Based on the sources of private origin there is reconstructed the mission of a military priest on the battlefield. Besides, the present study analyzes the specifics of understanding the concepts of war and motherhood by the clergy, how the priests un-derstood the set tasks and their own mission, which took place in the context of the Orthodox culture and not through the lens of political rhetoric. Such an understanding of war formed an original content of church minister’s mission in the field. The mis-sion of military priests was both preserving the con-fessional identity and participation in the “holy war” as it was called for by state-approved slogans. The author concludes by stating that the ethos of a mili-tary priest was not monolithic, which was deter-mined by the peculiarities of understanding the concept of war by the clergy.