9780271023502-0271023503-Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars

Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars

ISBN-13: 9780271023502
ISBN-10: 0271023503
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Valerie A. Kivelson, Robert H. Greene
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780271023502
ISBN-10: 0271023503
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Valerie A. Kivelson, Robert H. Greene
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars (ISBN-13: 9780271023502 and ISBN-10: 0271023503), written by authors Valerie A. Kivelson, Robert H. Greene, was published by Penn State University Press in 2003. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Churches & Church Leadership (History, Christian Books & Bibles, European History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Churches & Church Leadership books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 contro-versies 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 Thyret, William G. Wagner, and Paul W. Werth.

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