historiography

The Figure of Metropolitan Ignatius in the Construction of Identity and Historical Memory of the Azov Greeks

The article examines the transformation of the image of Metropolitan Ignatius in historiography and its use for constructing ethnic identity and historical memory of the Greeks of Ukrainian Northern Azov Sea region. The article analyzes historical and local historical literature and periodicals of the imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The analysis showed that the imperatives of modeling the image of the Metropolitan varied according to the political situation and the dominant ideology.

Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution

The article covers «traditional» historiography of the Scientific Revolution, from Auguste Comte to Richard Westfall, and sheds light on the positivist sources that inspired its key ideas and practices. The author believes that positivist views neglected the role of religion in the Scientific Revolution. The situation radically changed in the 1960-1970s, when historians started to pay attention to a wide variety of cultural factors that took part both in the process of birth of the modern science and in shaping modernity as a whole.