Staryshkina Anastasia A.,
Research Assistant, Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
“We Will not be able to Kill the Searching for God into Ourselves”: Religion Discourse of Ego-Documents of Russian Women-Journalists of Second Half 19th – Early 20th Centuries
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-2-15
Religious discourse of ego-documents of Russian women-journalists of second half 19th – early 20th centuries is characterized in the article. Memoirs of women-journalists is a main historical source of this article. Religious discourse was localized into ego-documents around such issues as upbringing and educating the childhood, events of Orthodox calendar and church’s ceremonies. Women-journalists wrote about teaching the Law of God at home or at schools, about reading and influence of books of the Old and New Testaments on their world-views. Women took more seriously religion ordinances and rites in childhood. However, it began to be perceived more formal as they grew up. Most of them did not observe the religious rites. Women-journalists talked about their worryes in childhood regarding the religious matters along with crisis of faith they had had. Elements of confession were included in ego-documents because women told about their sins in adolescence in such texts. Furthermore women-journalists used religious rhetoric reflecting on the value and role of literature or telling about some periodical publications and figures from the journalism and literature world. In this instance women exploited images of ancient mythology and Christian creed. This emphasized sacral status of literature in the Russian society as well as contributed to mythologization of writers and journalists. Nonetheless, the use of pagan metaphoric served only as a way to desacralize the image of writer.
Publishing: 29/04/2020
How to cite: Staryshkina A.A. “We Will not be able to Kill the Searching for God into Ourselves”: Religion Discourse of Ego-Documents of Russian Women-Journalists of Second Half 19th – Early 20th Centuries // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 2 (10), pp. 194–206. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-2-15.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2020
Keywords: discourse; religious rhetoric; identity; Russian women-journalists; ego-documents; memoirs; autobiography