Corporate culture of church historians in the Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Academy in the second half XIX - the first quarter of the XX century: research concept

In the XIX century in Russian ecclesiastical academies formation of professorial corporation, which had its own corporate culture, took place. Reconstruction of the corporate culture of historians as part of the faculty of the ecclesiastical academies of the second half of XIX - early XX century will contribute to the study of church history of science and religious education at that time, to understand the features of the formation of scientific schools, approaches of the historians to the investigations of the scientific works; to identify the place and role of the churchly historical science in the social process. Thus, the object of the study is corporate culture of the community of church historians, represented in the activities of the spiritual and the academic community. What topics and issues will be interested for us in the first place: the factors under the influence of which the corporate culture is formed; the existence of subcultures and counter-cultures; corporate culture; core values; perception of corporate culture; corporate identity issues. The sources for this study can be divided into the following groups: regulatory and business documents; sources of personal origin (diaries, notes, autobiographies, correspondence, memories); periodicals; scientific works. Expected results of the study: identification of functions, values, roles, transformations of corporate culture; answer to the question - how much the success of the church history science has been associated with the corporate culture of theological academies, and, what is also significant, whether it's possible to use this experience nowadays.

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