ABOUT SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY OF HIEROTOPY
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2018-1-49-69
Prof. S. V. Zagraevsky undertook a comprehensive analysis of methodology and applications of hierotopy, which is defined as a special kind of activity on creation of so-called “sacred spaces”, and as a special area of historical and cultural research, which identifies and analyzes the examples of this activity. Hierotopy is an extremely broad concept, applicable to actually every scientific discipline (history of architecture and urban planning, and culturology, and ethnography, and philosophy, and art history, and musicology, and religious studies, and political science, and odorology (studying of smells), and many others, down to “mystical knowledge”). The author expressed doubts about scientific validity and practical value of hierotopy, and noted that it is a compilative theoretical layering, which is able to produce scientific achievements only to the extent that it remains within the framework of traditional scientific disciplines. “Superstructure” in the form of an act of faith that almost every artifact is a part of a certain “sacred space” (i. e. has some “higher supernatural sense”) is unproved, therefore, unconvincing, therefore, redundant, therefore, harmful, because overloads scientific text and contradicts to “Occam’s razor” – “Entities should not by multiplied without necessity”. Scientific text must be maximally versatile and should not cause ideological rejection in those readers who do not profess the faith of the author of this text. This is required by basic scientific ethics.
Keywords: hierotopy, methodology, architecture, town-planning, scientific research of culture
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