Pj. Raivo, THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE - THE ORTHODOX-MILIEU AS AN ELEMENT IN THE FINNISH CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, 1917-1939, Journal of historical geography, 23(3), 1997, pp. 327-339
This paper is concerned with the case of the pre-war (1917-1939) Finni
sh Orthodox Church, and places emphasis on the political, cultural and
ideological representation and rhetoric of the religious landscapes a
nd milieux of Orthodox culture. It studies how the political symbolism
of the Orthodox religious culture was seen by the dominant Lutheran c
ulture either as an alien intrusion, and thus inappropriate, or as an
acceptable national value, depending on the location of the landscape
in question. The examples of this variation in the political reading o
f religious landscapes are taken from pre-war newspapers dealing with
the Russian military churches of southern Finland, the chapels of the
border region of Karelia and the nationalist values attached to Valamo
Monastery. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limited.