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. ...
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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 Thyr???t, William G. Wagner, and Paul W. Werth.
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New. Let it be said at the outset that this is an academic book. It is a collection of essays written by academic specialists in the fields of Russian, Eastern European and Medieval History and the sociology of religion for other academics. But let it also be said that these are an elite who argue that history should not be elitist. They compile a tremendous amount of original research and expend much mental energy insisting that close attention be paid not only to great theologians articulating and churchmen transmitting doctrine, but equally to the devotional habits and religious passions of common folk. How were popular pious practices connected with miracle-working icons or acclaim for holy men and women to be incorporated into the approved devotion of the Church? What place did women have in Russian Orthodoxy? How did faith shape mundane domestic life? How did numerous eccentric or heretical sects impact church life? What forms did apocalyptic expectation take? Important and fascinating stuff, really. We peasants might do well to return the courtesy of the attention these scholars have tended our kind.
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