Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent

Author : John Garrard,Carol Garrard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691165905

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Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent by John Garrard,Carol Garrard Pdf

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving Russians searching for a usable past. The Garrards reveal how Patriarch Aleksy II--a former KGB officer and the man behind the church's successful defeat of the coup--is reconstituting a new national idea in the church's own image. In the new Russia, the former KGB who run the country--Vladimir Putin among them--proclaim the cross, not the hammer and sickle. Meanwhile, a majority of Russians now embrace the Orthodox faith with unprecedented fervor. The Garrards trace how Aleksy orchestrated this transformation, positioning his church to inherit power once held by the Communist Party and to become the dominant ethos of the military and government. They show how the revived church under Aleksy prevented mass violence during the post-Soviet turmoil, and how Aleksy astutely linked the church with the army and melded Russian patriotism and faith. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent argues that the West must come to grips with this complex and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies today.

Author : John P. Burgess
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300222241

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Holy Rus' by John P. Burgess Pdf

A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy's resurgence A bold experiment is taking place in Russia. After a century of being scarred by militant, atheistic communism, the Orthodox Church has become Russia's largest and most significant nongovernmental organization. As it has returned to life, it has pursued a vision of reclaiming Holy Rus' that historical yet mythical homeland of the eastern Slavic peoples; a foretaste of the perfect justice, peace, harmony, and beauty for which religious believers long; and the glimpse of heaven on earth that persuaded Prince Vladimir to accept Orthodox baptism in Crimea in A.D. 988. Through groundbreaking initiatives in religious education, social ministry, historical commemoration, and parish life, the Orthodox Church is seeking to shape a new, post-communist national identity for Russia. In this eye-opening and evocative book, John Burgess examines Russian Orthodoxy's resurgence from a grassroots level, providing Western readers with an enlightening, inside look at the new Russia.

Author : Vera Shevzov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195335477

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Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution by Vera Shevzov Pdf

Explores sacred community, and how it functioned (or sometimes did not) in Russian Orthodoxy before the fateful historic events of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Author : Nathaniel Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429975127

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A Long Walk To Church by Nathaniel Davis Pdf

Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, interviews, and first-hand personal experiences, Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five years. In 1939, only a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church -- and parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However, after Stalin's death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between 1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More recently, the collapse of communism has created a mixture of dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous events of recent years, including schisms in Ukraine, Estonia, and Moldova, and confrontations between church traditionalists, conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics, Protestant evangelists, and pagans in the south and east, the canonization of the last Czar, the church's financial crisis, and hard data on the slowing Russian orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral leadership now beckon between promise and possibility.

Author : Scott M. Kenworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199736133

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The Heart of Russia by Scott M. Kenworthy Pdf

Studies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.

Author : Greg Simons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 918965210X

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Religious Resurgence by Greg Simons Pdf

"After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Orthodox Church once again found itself in a new political environment. When the new constitution was introduced, it allowed for freedom of religion, which meant that religious denominations in addition to the Orthodox Church would be tolerated by the State. The Russian Federation's first President Boris Yeltsin and other leading political figures during the Yeltsin years (1991-1999) seem to have shown some favoritism toward this Church. Once more, a change in the official attitude toward the Church occurred in 2000. The new presidential family, the Putins, have openly proclaimed close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. Legal changes and official statements through the media have signaled an increasing level of Church influence on matters of State. However, although many Russians identify themselves as Orthodox, this does not translate to high public participation in religious life. The Orthodox Church would appear to have failed to fill the ideological void, caused by the collapse of Marxism-Leninism."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271046020

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Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Meyendorff
Publisher : RSM Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Liturgical reform
ISBN : 088141090X

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Russia, Ritual, and Reform by Paul Meyendorff Pdf

The reform of the liturgical books conducted in Muscovite Russia in the mid-17th century was an alignment of Russina liturgical usage with contemporary Greek practice. Historians have up to now generally accepted the official interpretation of the reform as a correcting made on the basis of ancient Greek and Slavic sources. In fact, the reform was based exclusively on contemporary sources chiefly the 1602 Venice Euchologion (Greek) and 17th century South-Slavic editions from Kiev and Striatin. Far from being a return to sources, or a correction, the reform consisted simply in the uncritical transposition of contemporary Greek practice onto Russian soil.

Author : Kristina Stoeckl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004440159

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Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism by Kristina Stoeckl Pdf

In Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism, Kristina Stoeckl surveys the ways in which the Russian Orthodox Church has negotiated its relationship with the secular state, with other religions, and with Western modernity from its beginnings until the present.

Author : Gennady Zyuganov,Vadim Medish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317464273

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My Russia: The Political Autobiography of Gennady Zyuganov by Gennady Zyuganov,Vadim Medish Pdf

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the summer 1996 presidential elections. Although his face became familiar to the world at that time, his ideas and his programme were mainly a subject of speculation. A former village teacher from Orel Province, Zyuganov came to Moscow in the 1980s to work in the ideology department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and to complete doctoral work in philosophy at Moscow State University. He is a prolific writer who has rebuilt the Communist Party on his vision of a Russian socialist great power. Today he leads the Communist faction in the Duma and is chairman of the united opposition movement - the National Patriotic Union. This volume is a compilation of Zyuganov's writings on Russia's past and present and her place in the world; Russia's fate under the new leadership of Gorbachev and Yeltsin; his own vision of Russia's future under a new Communist leadership; and his reflections on the 1996 presidential election of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Author : Zoe Knox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134360826

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Russian Society and the Orthodox Church by Zoe Knox Pdf

Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism, which in turn have influenced the ways in which Russians understand civil society, including those of its features - pluralism and freedom of conscience - that are essential for a functioning democracy. It shows how the official church, including the Moscow Patriarchate, has impeded the development of civil society, while on the other hand the non-official church, including nonconformist clergy and lay activists, has promoted concepts central to civil society.

Author : Adrian Velicu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030484279

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The Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania by Adrian Velicu Pdf

This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church’s arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy’s deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted constellation of arguments in contemporary intellectual history. A survey of public intellectuals’ opinions on national identity complements the Church’s views. The investigation attempts to offer an insight into the Church’s efforts to re-assert itself, given free rein in a post-dictatorial world of accelerated modernization. After clarifying and surveying the Church’s claims on institutional and national identity, the book then also explores the secular ideas on the subject. The subsequent analysis treats this material as “speech acts” (statements doing, not only saying, something) which are occasionally out of sync. Against a background of secularization, the Church’s rhetoric articulates a distinct line of thought in the post-89 intellectual landscape.

Author : Nathaniel Davis
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032087424

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A Long Walk To Church by Nathaniel Davis Pdf

Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church - parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted.

Author : Dmitry Adamsky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503608658

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Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy by Dmitry Adamsky Pdf

“A richly documented analysis of the post-Soviet nexus between religion, nationalism, and nuclear weapons . . . An important, pioneering work!” —David Holloway, Stanford University A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity. This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the priesthood has penetrated all levels of command and the Church has positioned itself as a guardian of the state’s nuclear potential. Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy considers how, since the Soviet collapse in 1991, the Church has worked its way into the nuclear forces of one of the world’s most powerful militaries. Dmitry Adamsky describes how the Orthodox faith has merged with Russian national identity as the Church continues to expand its influence on foreign and domestic politics. The Church both legitimizes and influences Moscow’s assertive national security strategy in the twenty-first century. This book highlights the implications of this phenomenon for international security, and interrogates how the confluence of religion and security could influence other members of the nuclear club, beyond Russia.

Author : Robert Lewis Nichols,Theofanis George Stavrou
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816608478

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Russian Orthodoxy Under the Old Regime by Robert Lewis Nichols,Theofanis George Stavrou Pdf

Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this book, which is especially suitable for course use, eleven scholars examine one of the most important institutions of imperial Russia, the Orthodox church in the two centuries before the Russian revolution. The material is arranged in two sections, the first devoted to Orthodoxy's role in Russian social and cultural life and the second dealing with the church's relationship to the tsarist regime.