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Tempting Power

Item number (ISN):

422673

Series title:

Sunday Morning : [excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

422673

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAY, Elizabeth

Accession:

2010-0012

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1994-02-20

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, Elizabeth Gray; host, Bob Carty

Description:

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Documentary about the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church which is emerging from 74 years of prosecution due to the Soviet Union’s policy of official atheism. Subjects discussed: the weak condition of the church due to years of oppression; tension within the church between conservative and modern forces; disappointment among some of the faithful who hoped that a free church would help to build a free society; collaboration by the church with the Soviet state; comparisons with the church in Poland; the ancient Slavonic language, the traditional language of the Russian Orthodox Church; the use of the Russian language in church services; an order by the church hierarchy to cease using Russian in church services and an order to the parish of Virgin of Vladimir church to relocate; evangelical churches trying to win converts in Russia; and legislation to restrict the activities of religious organizations other than the Russian Orthodox Church. Interviewees include: a member of the congregation of Virgin of Vladimir church; Sergei [Filatov], director of a sociological centre in Moscow and a specialist in religion; a lay worker and catechism teacher at Virgin of Vladimir church; a school teacher who had to hide her religious faith in the Soviet era; Gleb Yakunin, a priest and Democratic deputy in the Russian parliament who ended up in a labor camp in the Soviet era and was defrocked recently because he continues to criticize the church; a young woman at an evangelical church service; George [Law], who runs an American-based office in Moscow for foreign missionaries; and an employee of the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the external affairs division of the Moscow Patriarch. Actuality includes: singing at a service in the 17th-century Virgin of Vladimir church in Moscow; a foundry making church bells; and an evangelical church service. <25mn 11s>

Language:

English

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1. Second track on the CD.~2. Script available.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.

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