History of Religious Sectarianism in Russia, 1860s-1917
Author: Aleksandr Ilʹich Klibanov
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aleksandr Ilʹich Klibanov
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aleksandr I. Klibanov
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780080267944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. I. Klibanov
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Published: 1994-07-01
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ISBN-13: 9781572057531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary Raber
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-05-13
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1498280714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present study fills a gap in the study of the evangelical movement in Russia by presenting a comprehensive picture of their compassionate ministry during their longest stretch of relative freedom before the 1980s. Better known for their energetic preaching and literature work, Russian evangelicals also gave attention to compassionate ministry, although it was never extensive because of their marginal status. They established assistance funds, organized charitable institutions, practiced urban rescue ministry, participated in the Russian temperance movement, and established economic communities. Each area is distinct, yet all were supported by the same set of theological convictions. The Russian evangelicals were convinced that their witness should consist of good works as well as words, and that the gospel had the power to undo human suffering. While intentionally cultivating an attitude of concern for the needs of others, they taught that compassion was the concern of all members of the community, regardless of economic status or age. In their publications evangelicals devoted a good deal of teaching to the proper Christian attitude toward money and giving. They drew on Western models, but also their indigenous sectarian roots.
Author: Luke Kelly
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-27
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3319651900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and to relieve the victims of famines in late-tsarist and early communist Russia. By focusing on the roles of Christian, Jewish and liberal interests in deploying humanitarian solutions, Kelly shows how humanitarianism developed ‘from below’, while also examining the growth of a broader humanitarian discourse in the context of the Anglo-Russian relationship.
Author: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781563240393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an annotated collection of recent studies of Russian folk religion, village organization and family life, including the rituals associated with childbirth, and paying special attention to women's roles and to the specificity of Siberia in Russian culture.
Author: Patrick Lally Michelson
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2014-07-31
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0299298949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays on Russian religious thought focuses on the extent to which Russian culture and ideology has been informed by the nation's roots in Orthodox Christianity.
Author: Nicholas B. Breyfogle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0801463564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious culture. He reconstructs the story of the religious sectarians (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) who settled, either voluntarily or by force, in the newly conquered lands of Transcaucasia in the nineteenth century. By ordering this migration in 1830, Nicholas I attempted at once to cleanse Russian Orthodoxy of heresies and to populate the newly annexed lands with ethnic Slavs who would shoulder the burden of imperial construction. Breyfogle focuses throughout on the lives of the peasant settlers, their interactions with the peoples and environment of the South Caucasus, and their evolving relations with Russian state power. He draws on a wide variety of archival sources, including a large collection of previously unexamined letters, memoirs, and other documents produced by the sectarians that allow him unprecedented insight into the experiences of colonization and religious life. Although the settlers suffered greatly in their early years in hostile surroundings, they in time proved to be not only model Russian colonists but also among the most prosperous of the Empire's peasants. Banished to the empire's periphery, the sectarians ironically came to play indispensable roles in the tsarist imperial agenda. The book culminates with the dramatic events of the Dukhobor pacifist rebellion, a movement that shocked the tsarist government and received international attention. In the early twentieth century, as the Russian state sought to replace the sectarians with Orthodox settlers, thousands of Molokans and Dukhobors immigrated to North America, where their descendants remain to this day.
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780822320708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Politics, religion, and social change in the post-communist world of Eastern Europe and Russia.
Author: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1317461126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russia is not only vast, it is also culturally diverse, the core of an empire that spanned Eurasia. In addition to the majority Russian Orthodox and various other Christian groups, the Russian Federation includes large communities of Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and members of other religious groups, some with ancient historical roots. All are in a state of ferment, and securing formal state recognition for specific communities is often daunting. This collection provides entry into the diversity of Russia's religious communities. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer's introduction to the volume illuminates major political, social, and cultural-anthropological trends. The book is organized by religious tradition or identity, with further thematic perspectives on each set of readings. The authors include ethnologists, sociologists, political analysts, and religious leaders from many regions of the Federation. They analyze the changing dynamics of religion and politics within each community and in the context of the current drive to recentralize both political and religious authority in Moscow. Topical coverage extends from reassertions of Russian Orthodoxy to activities of Christian and Muslim missionaries to the revival of many other religions, including indigenous shamanic ones.