ORTHODOX MİSSİON AMONG THE CİRCASSİANS OF THE NORTH-WEST CAUCASUS
FOREWORD Each generation is rewriting its history. This truism seems to be becoming the norm of scientific historical consciousness.Modern epistemology recognizes that truth in historical knowledge is always contextual: it…
”DON’T CHOOSE BEDIOUN TRADITION OVER YOUR 3000 YEARS OLD ADYGHE XABZE TRADITION!’’
rina Babich Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Caucasus Department (Moscow, Russian Federation) At once, when…
SAINT GEORGE’S DAY FOR CHRISTIAN CIRCASSIANS
The (Orthodox) Christian Circassians celebrate Saint George’s Day (Даущджэрджий и махуэ) on 6 May. Saint George is the patron saint of the Circassian Orthodox Christians. Circassian folklore has preserved vestiges…
WORLD RELIGIONS IN CIRCASSIA
The first appeared of Orthodoxy in Circassia. For the first time Christianity as such appears in the western Caucasus around the 1st century, ie at the very beginning of its…