Orthodox Russia

Belief and Practice Under the Tsars

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvValerie A. Kivelson,Robert H. Greene,Valerie A. (University of Michigan) Kivelson

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Orthodox Christianity came to Russia from Byzantium in 988, and in the ensuing centuries it has become such a fixture of the Russian cultural landscape that any discussion of Russian character or history inevitably must take its influence into account. Orthodox Russia is a timely volume that brings together some of the best contemporary scholarship on Russian Orthodox beliefs and practices covering a broad historical period—from the Muscovite era through the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Studies of Russian Orthodoxy have typically focused on doctrinal controversies or institutional developments. Orthodox Russia concentrates on lived religious experience—how Orthodoxy touched the lives of a wide variety of subjects of the Russian state, from clerics awaiting the Apocalypse in the fifteenth century and nuns adapting to the attacks on organized religion under the Soviets to unlettered military servitors at the court of Ivan the Terrible and workers, peasants, and soldiers in the last years of the imperial regime. Melding traditionally distinct approaches, the volume allows us to see Orthodoxy not as a static set of rigidly applied rules and dictates but as a lived, adaptive, and flexible system.Orthodox Russia offers a much-needed, up-to-date general survey of the subject, one made possible by the opening of archives in Russia after 1991. Contributors include Laura Engelstein, Michael S. Flier, Daniel H. Kaiser, Nadieszda Kizenko, Eve Levin, Gary Marker, Daniel Rowland, Vera Shevzov, Thomas N. Tentler, Isolde Thyrêt, William G. Wagner, and Paul W. Werth.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-06-15
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271023502

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsChronologyIntroductionValerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. GreenePart I: Destabilizing Dichotomies1. Old and New, High and Low: Straw Horsemen of Russian OrthodoxyLaura Engelstein2. Two Cultures, One Throne Room: Secular Courtiers and Orthodox Culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow KremlinDaniel Rowland3. Letting the People into Church: Reflections on Orthodoxy and Community in Late Imperial RussiaVera ShevzovPart II: Imagining the Sacred4. From Corpse to Cult in Early Modern RussiaEve Levin5. Protectors of Women and the Lower Orders: Constructing Sainthood in Modern RussiaNadieszda KizenkoPart III: Encountering the Sacred6. Till the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Russian Historical Experience Before 1500Michael S. Flier7. Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and PracticeIsolde ThyrêtPart IV: Living Orthodoxy8. Quotidian Orthodoxy: Domestic Life in Early Modern RussiaDaniel H. Kaiser9. God of Our Mothers: Reflections on Lay Female Spirituality in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century RussiaGary Marker10. Paradoxes of Piety: The Nizhegorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807–1935William G. Wagner11. Orthodoxy as Ascription (and Beyond): Religious Identity on the Edges of the Orthodox Community, 1740–1917Paul W. WerthEpilogue: A View from the WestThomas N. TentlerAnnotated BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“Orthodox Russia resituates the study of Russian Orthodox culture within the history of lived experience—something that scholars would not have attempted a generation ago. With essays by some of the finest historians working on Russian Orthodox culture, the book demonstrates how the field has become an ever more integral part of wider cultural studies.”—Stephen K. Batalden, Arizona State University