Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy

Heather L. Bailey is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Springfield. She is author of Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity.

• Introduction1. Roman Catholicism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Russophobia in France, 1830–18562. The Archpriest as Publicist and Polemicist3. The "Byzantine Firework" of Paris4. A Spectacular Success: The Paris Church, the Russian Orthodox Press, and the Public Image of Orthodoxy5. The Church Chained to the Throne of the "Czar"6. Guettée, Vasiliev, L'Union chrétienne,and the Public Image of OrthodoxyConclusion

This book deftly charts efforts by Russian Orthodox publicists in the two decades preceding the First Vatican Council (1869–70) to explain and defend their confession to Roman Catholic clerics and intellectuals in France.(The Russian Review) Bailey has created an interesting and important book about Franco-Russian religious relationships in the mid-nineteenth century that will contribute to our ongoing quest to better understand the political, cultural, and theological aspects of the public image of Eastern Orthodoxy past and present.(Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies) The volume is perhaps even more relevant today than the author imagined it would be. It will be of interest to historians of Russian Orthodoxy and French Catholicism, as well as those interested in Western perceptions of Russia, Russia's relations with the West, and relations between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.(Reading Religion)