Old Believers

Author : Irina Paert
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719063221

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Old Believers by Irina Paert Pdf

Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the study of ethnic American fictions organised into four sections, each written by a specialist in the fields of African American, Asian American, Chicano/a and native American literature. Writers are discussed in their cultural/political contexts and literary traditions (rather than as exceptions or as individuals, or on a generic basis). The book highlights common themes in ethnic writing as well as specificities, and has extensive suggestions for further reading as well as a critical introduction regarding the concept of 'ethnic writing'. No competing titles - there are no textbooks, no beginners' books nor any systematised combination of ethnic fictions such as this - only edited collections on each area.

Author : Peter T. De Simone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838609535

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The Old Believers in Imperial Russia by Peter T. De Simone Pdf

'Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Pskov in 1510, proclaiming Muscovite Russia as heirs to the legacy of the Roman Empire following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. The so-called 'Third Rome Doctrine' spurred the creation of the Russian Orthodox Church, although just a century later a further schism occurred, with the Old Believers (or 'Old Ritualists') challenging Patriarch Nikon's liturgical and ritualistic reforms and laying their own claim to the mantle of Roman legacy. While scholars have commonly painted the subsequent history of the Old Believers as one of survival in the face of persistent persecution at the hands of both tsarist and church authorities, Peter De Simone here offers a more nuanced picture. Based on research into extensive, yet mostly unknown, archival materials in Moscow, he shows the Old Believers as versatile and opportunistic, and demonstrates that they actively engaged with, and even challenged, the very notion of the spiritual and ideological place of Moscow in Imperial Russia.Ranging in scope from Peter the Great to Lenin, this book will be of use to all scholars of Russian and Orthodox Church history.

Author : Daniel H. Shubin
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780875864266

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A History of Russian Christianity, Vol. III by Daniel H. Shubin Pdf

This volume covers the era of towering personalities and great tsars, the history of the Old Believers, the Iconoclasts, Judaizers and other small sects, and the Christian philosophies of Leo Tolstoy, then concludes with the last Tsar, Nicholas II, Rasputin and declining power of Russian Orthodoxy.

Author : Roy R. Robson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0875802052

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Old Believers in Modern Russia by Roy R. Robson Pdf

Author : Robert Crummey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609090210

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Old Believers in a Changing World by Robert Crummey Pdf

This important collection of essays by a pioneer in the field focuses on the history and culture of a conservative religious tradition whose adherents have fought to preserve their beliefs and practices from the seventeenth century through today. Old Belief had its origins in a protest against liturgical reforms in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-1600s and quickly grew into a complex torrent of opposition to the Russian state, the official church, and the social hierarchy. For Old Believers, periods of full religious freedom have been very brief—from 1905 to 1917 and since the fall of the Soviet Union. Crummey examines the ways in which Old Believers defend their core beliefs and practices and adjust their polemical strategies and way of life in response to the changing world. Opening chapters survey the historiography of Old Belief, examine the methodological problems in studying the movement as a Russian example of "popular religion," and outline the first decades of the history. Particular themes of Old Believer history are the focus of the rest of the book, beginning with two sets of case studies of spirituality, culture, and intellectual life. Subsequent chapters analyze the diverse structures of Old Believer communities and their fate in times of persecution. A final essay examines publications of contemporary scholars in Novosibirsk whose work provides glimpses of the life of traditional believers in the Soviet period. Old Believers in a Changing World will appeal to scholars and students of Russian history, to those interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, and to those with an interest in the comparative history of religious movements.

Author : Benjamin Wallin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591025508

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The ancient believers transition from mortality to life, a sermon occasioned by the decease of H. Munn by Benjamin Wallin Pdf

Author : Paul John Wigowsky
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450214476

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Freedom for an Old Believer by Paul John Wigowsky Pdf

Review by Margaret McKibben: Paul J. Wigowsky, a Russian-speaking schoolteacher with many years experience teaching Russian Old Believer children, has put together an extensive site describing Old Believer faith, history and traditional ways. This is the place to start: http://wigowsky.com/products.html The same school teacher who put together the website "Collection of Old Believer History and Traditions" (see above) also wrote a novel which describes the adventures of an Old Believer family fleeing from China to South America to Oregon. This novel, Freedom For an Old Believer, recounts the adventures of a fictional Old Believer couple, Ivan and Masha Bogolubov. The couple leaves rural China in the late 1950s and immigrates to Brazil. In 1962, they emigrate from Brazil to Oregon, where the husband dies years later in the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The author goes to great lengths to portray Old Believer life, including much historical background and many details of their customs and beliefs. Most of the incidents are drawn directly from the real-life experiences of the Oregon community. Other material (expositions of dogma, folk tales, and religious stories) are drawn from secondary sources.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081678199

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Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1322286755

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A Prayer Book for Orthodox Christians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555026521

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The Day of rest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roy R. Robson
Publisher : Niu Slavic, East European, and
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0875809987

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Old Believers in Modern Russia by Roy R. Robson Pdf

The schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church in 1667 alienated thousands of devout men and women. These traditional worshippers, who came to be known as the Old Believers, practiced their faith as outsiders for more than two centuries. Denied the Russian Orthodox Church's sacraments, they in turn denied that its "new" ways could lead them to salvation. Always at odds with the established Russian Orthodox Church and the tsar, the Old Believers created a vibrant separate culture within the imperial Russian state. Old Believers in Modern Russia shows how Russia's most traditional religious group created a "culture of community" distinct from the dominant culture and society. This culture provided a lens through which the faithful could view, interpret, and interact with their world. Focusing especially on imperial Russia's twilight years, Robson explores how the Old Believers adapted to rapid change in the early twentieth century. Until recently, little has been known about Old Believer faith and culture. Most previous studies have relied upon information provided by outsiders, usually the state or the Russian Orthodox Church. Robson explores Old Believer experience from the inside in this first detailed study of the group in the late imperial period. He integrates historical methods with communication theory and symbolic anthropology to reveal the many facets of Old Believer life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081666145

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The North British Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović,Radmila Radić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319633541

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Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe by Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović,Radmila Radić Pdf

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity. The movements of religious renewal among Orthodox believers appeared almost simultaneously in different areas of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and during the first decades of the twentieth century. This volume examines what could be defined as renewal movement in Eastern Orthodox traditions. Some case studies include the God Worshippers in Serbia, religious fraternities in Bulgaria, the Zoe movement in Greece, the evangelical movement among Romanian Orthodox believers known as Oastea Domnului (The Lord’s Army), the Doukhobors in Russia, and the Maliovantsy in Ukraine. This volume provides a new understanding of processes of change in the spiritual landscape of Orthodox Christianity and various influences such as other non-Orthodox traditions, charismatic leaders, new religious practices and rituals.

Author : Thomas Marsden
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198746362

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The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia by Thomas Marsden Pdf

This book is about an unprecedented attempt by the government of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to eradicate what was seen as one of the greatest threats to its political security: the religious dissent of the Old Believers. The Old Believers had long been reviled by the ruling Orthodox Church, for they were the largest group of Russian dissenters and claimed to be the guardians of true Orthodoxy; however, their industrious communities and strict morality meant that the civil authorities often regarded them favourably. This changed in the 1840s and 1850s when a series of remarkable cases demonstrated that the existing restrictions upon the dissenters' religious freedoms could not suppress their capacity for independent organisation. Finding itself at a crossroads between granting full toleration, or returning to the fierce persecution of earlier centuries, the tsarist government increasingly inclined towards the latter course, culminating in a top secret 'system' introduced in 1853 by the Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitrii Bibikov. The operation of this system was the high point of religious persecution in the last 150 years of the tsarist regime: it dissolved the Old Believers' religious gatherings, denied them civil rights, and repressed their leading figures as state criminals. It also constituted an extraordinary experiment in government, instituted to deal with a temporary emergency. Paradoxically the architects of this system were not churchmen or reactionaries, but representatives of the most progressive factions of Nicholas's bureaucracy. Their abandonment of religious toleration on grounds of political intolerability reflected their nationalist concerns for the future development of a rapidly changing Russia. The system lasted only until Nicholas's death in 1855; however, the story of its origins, operation, and collapse, told for the first time in this study, throws new light on the religious and political identity of the autocratic regime and on the complexity of the problems it faced.

Author : David Scheffel
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Alberta
ISBN : IND:30000036487639

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In the Shadow of Antichrist by David Scheffel Pdf

The 'Old Believers' constitute the most conservative branch of Eastern Christendom. They are determined to remain separate from the rest of society, which they believe to have succumbed to the agents of antichrist. The text enables us to understand both Christian culture and traditional culture in the modern world.