Scientist was awarded for his book about underground church

SFI Information service, specially for Baznica.info, informs: Alexey Beglov, professor of St Philaret’s Orthodox Christian Institute, received Metropolitan Macarius prize, one of the most prestigious award in theology and humanities.

This award was institued by Macarius (Bulgakov) (1816-1882) who was the Metropolitan of Moscow and an internationally recognized scientist, reports Liberty of Faith. This award was estabplished with the incomes from his own religious, historical and theological publications.

Alexey Beglov, PhD, senior researcher of the World History Institute, Russian Academy of Science, professor of St Philaret’s Orthodox Christian Institute received Metropolitan Macarius prize for his book «In search of “ideal church catacombs”. Church underground in the USSR». This book tells about history of illegal church movements (which were forbidden by the Soviet legislation) during the Soviet period. Specificity of XX century history doesn’t give unequivocal estimation of this phenomenon. Moreover, today disputes arise not only over activity of the Catacomb Church, but even over the fact of their existence. The author investigates features of Soviet religious policy, in particular, reasons for illegal church occurrence. The book also talks about relations between underground church and legal church. A.L.Beglov’s book represents an attempt to characterise «catacomb church» and its influence on the subsequent church life.

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[11/17/2009]

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