The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Her scholarship has focused on the Russian classics (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian opera and theatre, and the metaphysical ground of the humanities. Recent projects include the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), the allegorical-historical novelist Vladimir Sharov (1952-2018), and the neoThomist aesthetics of Jacques Maritain.George Pattison is an Anglican priest and has held posts in Cambridge (1991-2001), Aarhus (2002-3), Oxford (2004-13) and Glasgow (2013-) universities. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in the field of modern theology and philosophy of religion, including co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard and The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought. He is currently writing a three part philosophy of Christian life, Part 1, A Phenomenology of the Devout Life was published in 2018 and Part 2, A Rhetorics of the Word, in 2019.Randall A. Poole is Professor of History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He is also a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Fellow of the International Center for the Study of Russian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2003); co-editor (with G. M. Hamburg) of A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2013); co-editor (with Paul W. Werth) of Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018); and author of numerous articles and book chapters.

• FOREWORDMetropolitan Hilarion Of Volokalamsk: INTRODUCTIONPART I HISTORICAL CONTEXTS1: David Goldfrank: Christianity in Rus' and Muscovy2: Nadieszda Kizenko: The Orthodox Church and Religious Life in Imperial Russia3: Vera Shevzov: The Orthodox Church and Religion in Revolutionary Russia, 1894-19244: Zoe Knox: Russian Religious Life in the Soviet EraPART II THE NINETEENTH CENTURY5: Oleg V. Bychkov: The Theological-Aesthetic Vision of Metropolitan Filaret6: Patrick Lally Michelson: Russian Orthodox Thought in the Church's Clerical Academies7: G. M. Hamburg: Petr Chaadaev and the Slavophile-Westernizer Debate8: Randall A. Poole: Slavophilism and the Origins of Russian Religious Philosophy9: Victoria Frede: Nihilism10: George Pattison: Dostoevsky11: Caryl Emerson: Tolstoy12: Catherine Evtuhov: Vladimir Soloviev as a Religious PhilosopherPART III THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL RENAISSANCE, 1900-192213: Erich Lippman: God-seeking, God-building, and the New Religious Consciousness14: Ruth Coates: Theosis in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Religious Thought15: Randall A. Poole: The Liberalism of Russian Religious Idealism16: Regula M. Zwahlen: Sergei Bulgakov's Intellectual Journey, 1900-192217: Christoph Schneider: Pavel Florensky: At the Boundary of Immanence and Transcendence18: Ana Siljak: The Personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev19: Scott M. Kenworthy: The Name-Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy20: Dominic Rubin: Judaism and Russian Religious ThoughtPART IV ART IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT21: Victor V. Bychkov: Russian Religious Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century22: Rebecca Mitchell: 'Musical Metaphysics' in Late Imperial Russia23: Martha M. F. Kelly: Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry24: Clemena Antonova: The Icon and Visual Arts at the Time of the Russian Religious RenaissancePART V RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ABROAD25: Antoine Arjakovsky: The Way, The Journal of the Russian Emigration (1925-1940)26: George Pattison: Berdyaev and Christian Existentialism27: Ramona Fotiade: Lev Shestov: The Meaning of Life and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge28: Fr. Robert F. Slesinski: Sergius Bulgakov in Exile: The Flowering of a Systematic Theologian29: Philip Boobbyer: Semyon Frank30: Martin Beisswenger: Lev Karsavin31: Paul L. Gavrilyuk: Varieties of Neopatristics: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and Alexander Schmemann32: Steven J. Sutcliffe And John P. Wilmett: 'The Work': The Teachings of G. I. Gurdieff and P. D. Ouspensky in Russia and BeyondPART VI RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN SOVIET RUSSIA33: Sr. Theresa Obolevitch: Alexei Losev: 'The Last Russian Philosopher' of the Silver Age34: Andrea Gulotta: Religious Thought and Experience in the Prison Camps35: Alina Birzache: Seeking God and Spiritual Salvation in Russian Cinema36: Caryl Emerson: Mikhail Bakhtin37: Katerina Kocandrle Bauer And Tim Noble: Alexander Men and Russian Religious Thought in the Post-Soviet SituationPART VII ASSESSMENTS38: Rowan Williams: Tradition in the Russian Theological World39: Paul Valliere: The Influence of Russian Religious Thought on Western Theology in the Twentieth Century40: Igor I. Evlampiev: The Tradition of Christian Thought in the History of Russian Culture

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