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" . . . a fascinating read for everyone interested in Russia, religion, and modernity." —Nadieszda KizenkoIn the early 20th century, Baptists were the fastest-growing non-Orthodox religious group among Russians and Ukrainians. Heather J. Coleman traces the development of Baptist evangelical communities through a period of rapid industrialization, war, and revolution, when Russians found themselves asking new questions about religion and its place in modern life. Baptists' faith helped them navigate the problems of dissent, of order and disorder, of modernization and westernization, and of national and social identity in their changing society. Making use of newly available archival material, this important book reveals the ways in which the Baptists' own experiences, and the widespread discussions that they generated, illuminate the emergence of new social and personal identities in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia, the creation of a public sphere and a civic culture, and the role of religious ideas in the modernization process.
Heather J. Coleman is Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spiritual Revolutions and Soul WarsPart I. Organizing for the Russian Reformation1. The Damned Shtundist: The Russian Evangelical Movement to 19052. The Era of "Open Storm": Baptist Organization and Community after 19053. A Community of Converts: Conversion Narratives and Social ExperiencePart II. The Most Dangerous Sect4. The Baptist Challenge5. Russian Baptists and the "German Faith"6. Dashed Hopes: 1910–1917Part III. A Spiritual Revolution7. The Revolution of the Spirit8. Revolution and Opportunity9. A Mixed Blessing: Sectarian Pacifism and Political Legitimacy10. Parallel Lives? Religious Activism and Godless FearsAfterwordGlossary and AbbreviationsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
"This meticulously researched book is the first national history of the Russian Baptists. . . . engaging and thought-provoking . . . [a] most welcome addition . . . .June 2009"—Laurie Manchester, Arizona State University