Popular Religion in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Religion in Russia write by Stella Rock. This book was released on 2007-09-10. Popular Religion in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by paganism, with 'double-believing' Christians consciously or unconsciously preserving pagan traditions even into the twentieth century. This volume shows how the concept of dvoeverie arose with nineteenth-century scholars obsessed with the Russian 'folk' and was perpetuated as a propaganda tool in the Soviet period, colouring our perception of both popular faith in Russian and medieval Russian culture for over a century. It surveys the wide variety of uses of the term from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, and contrasts them to its use in modern historiography, concluding that our modern interpretation of dvoeverie would not have been recognized by medieval clerics, and that 'double-belief' is a modern academic construct. Furthermore, it offers a brief foray into medieval Orthodoxy via the mind of the believer, through the language and literature of the period.
The Religion of the Russian People
The Religion of the Russian People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Religion of the Russian People write by Pierre Pascal. This book was released on 1976. The Religion of the Russian People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Russia has long exercised a special fascination for people in the West, which has been increased recently by the publicity given to the dissent of its leading intellectuals. Western Christians, tortured by self-doubt and an agonizing revaluation of all their values, are now hearing new and strange voices from Russia that bear testimony to the strength of the Christian faith there. More than ever before it is necessary to explore the hidden strengths of the religion of the Russian people.
Russia on the Eve of Modernity
Russia on the Eve of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia on the Eve of Modernity write by Leonid Heretz. This book was released on 2010-12-16. Russia on the Eve of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites. Drawing on traditional religious texts, ethnographic materials and contemporary accounts, this book brings to light the ideas and perceptions of the ordinary Russian people of the towns and countryside who continued to live in a pre-modern, non-Western culture that showed great resilience to the very end of the Romanov Empire. Leonid Heretz offers an overview of traditional Russian understandings of the world and its workings, and shows popular responses to events from the assassination of Alexander II to the First World War. This history of ordinary Russians illuminates key themes ranging from peasant monarchism to apocalyptic responses to intrusions from the modern world and will appeal to scholars of Russian history and the history of religion in modern Europe.
Religion and Identity in Modern Russia
Religion and Identity in Modern Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Identity in Modern Russia write by Juliet Johnson. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Religion and Identity in Modern Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries. The volume explicitly discusses and compares the role of Russia's two major religions, Orthodoxy and Islam, in forging identity in the modern era and brings an innovative blend of sociological, historical, linguistic and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity. This comprehensive volume is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.
The Religion of the Russian People
The Religion of the Russian People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Religion of the Russian People write by Pierre Pascal. This book was released on 1976. The Religion of the Russian People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
