What is it about?
Creedal controversies in Armenian communities in early modern Ottoman Empire reveal the strategies of the confession-building processes in the Armenian Apostolic Church. On the example of the Istanbul communities one can observe the confessional dynamics and modes of cohabitation of the Armenians in a multi-cultural context.
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Why is it important?
This article shows that disputes around a valid creed as a "rule of prayer" gradually became central in the reshaping of faith of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the late 17th century.
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Writing this article was a long journey through the archives, repositories and discussions with colleagues. I hope it will shed light on little explored aspects of communal life of the Armenians in early modernity and made it possible to find similar patterns of coexistence in modern societies.
Anna Ohanjanyan
Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts "Matenadaran," Yerevan
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This page is a summary of: Creedal Controversies among Armenians in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, September 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/26670038-12342708.
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