Russian Spirituality And The Secularization Of Culture

Author : Mikhail Epstein
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781257850600

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Russian Spirituality and the Secularization of Culture by Mikhail Epstein Pdf

"This book explores the challenges to the process of secularization in Russian society during the period of its dominance by the Orthodox Church, and subsequently during the Soviet atheistic era. Both are based on the binary opposition of values ('sacred' and 'profane') and do not admit of a 'middle ground' where truly secular culture develops. The book present the foundational categories of Russian spirituality, such as 'the demonic' and 'the apophatic,' 'banality' and 'inversion' drawing on the work of Russian writers and thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries .... The author considers modern Russian culture's need for a neutral 'middle ground' between its extreme polarities. He also explores the dangers of comprehensive neutralization in culture and the necessity of retaining elements of the dual model along with the introduction of intermediate elements. When combine, these views do not cancel each other out, but rather produced a 'ternary' model of a cultural symbiosis between the extreme and the media, despite their apparent incompatibility."-- P. [4] of cover.

Author : Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen,Teresa Obolevitch,Pawel Rojek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498203982

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Apology of Culture by Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen,Teresa Obolevitch,Pawel Rojek Pdf

Contemporary philosophy and theology are ever more conscious of the fact that the model of relations between religion and culture developed in modernity is fundamentally flawed. The processes of the secularization of society, culture, and even religion are rooted in the dualistic vision of religion and culture introduced in the late Middle Ages. In seeking a way out, we need to explore domains of culture unaffected by Western European secular thinking. Russian thought is remarkably well prepared to formulate an alternative to secular modernity. Indeed, in Russian culture there was neither a Renaissance nor an Enlightenment. Eastern Christianity retained an integral patristic vision of human nature that had not been divided into separate "natural" and "supernatural" elements. These pre- and non-modern visions are now gaining exceptional value in the postmodern reality in which we find ourselves. The heritage of Russian Christian thought may serve as a source of inspiration for alternative approaches to religion and culture. In this respect, Russian thought may be compared with nouvelle theologie, Radical Orthodoxy, and other recent movements in Christian postsecular thought. For this reason it remains astonishingly contemporary.

Author : Kristina Stoeckl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Catherine Wanner
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019993763X

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State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine by Catherine Wanner Pdf

State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine is a collection of essays written by a broad cross-section of scholars from around the world that explores the myriad forms religious expression and religious practice took in Soviet society in conjunction with the Soviet government's commitment to secularization.

Author : Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer,Ronald Radzai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315288437

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Russian Traditional Culture by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer,Ronald Radzai Pdf

The resurgence of national and historical awareness among the people of what was once the USSR has been nowhere stronger than among the Russians themselves. Some of the larger projects of rediscovery amount to a reinterpretation of traditional culture. This carefully annotated collection of recent studies of Russian folk religion, village organization and family life, including the rituals associated with childbirth, special attention to women's roles and to the specificity of Siberia in Russian culture, will be a revelation to a wide array of readers. It is intended for use not only in anthropology departments but more widely interdisciplinary courses in Russian studies, peasant studies and women's studies.

Author : Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : OCLC:230224354

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Outlines of Russian Culture by Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov Pdf

Author : Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen,Teresa Obolevitch,Pawel Rojek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498239776

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Beyond Modernity by Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen,Teresa Obolevitch,Pawel Rojek Pdf

Post-secularism is the fundamental evidence of the end of modernity. Modernity, as sleeping reason in Francisco Goya's painting, realizes that, although it thought that it was awake, it was producing monsters. We try to analyze post-secular philosophy from the point of view of Russian religious thought. We believe that such philosophers as Vladimir Soloviev, Pavel Florensky, Sergey Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Georges Florovsky, and Semen Frank may be helpful for understanding and overcoming post-secular order. Their unique views on the relations between religion and philosophy, science, and social life are apparently missing in the current Western debates. It seems to us that Russian religious philosophy becomes surprisingly up-to-date and attractive in the contemporary world. We hope that the present volume will be a significant step forward in the inclusion of the heritage of Russian religious philosophy in contemporary debates.

Author : Paul Miliukov
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512804478

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Outlines of Russian Culture, Part 1 by Paul Miliukov Pdf

This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times. For the convenience of those only interested in separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone volumes: Part I: Religion and the Church Part II: Literature Part III: Architecture, Painting and Music

Author : Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195069464

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Religion and Society in Russia by Paul Bushkovitch Pdf

This study traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period of Russian history. It reconstructs the main events of the age, such as the rise of miracle cults, and demonstrates how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society.

Author : Justin Beaumont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315307817

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The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity by Justin Beaumont Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity offers an internationally significant and comprehensive interdisciplinary collection which provides a series of critical reviews of the current state of the art and future trends in philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual terms. The volume likewise presents a range of empirical knowledges and engagements with postsecularity. A critical yet sympathetic dialogue across disciplinary divides in an international context ensures that the volume covers a wide and interrelated intellectual and geographical scope. The editor’s introduction with Klaus Eder offers a robust foundation for the volume, setting out the central aims and objectives, the rationale for the contributions, and an outline of the structure. Thorny issues of normativity and empirical challenges are highlighted for the reader. The handbook comprises four interrelated sections. Part I: Philosophical meditations discusses postsecularity from philosophical standpoints, and Part II: Theological perspectives presents contributions from a variety of theological viewpoints. Part III: Theory, space, social relations contains pieces from geography, planning, sociology, and religious studies that delve into theoretically informed empirical implications of postsecularity. Part IV: Political and social engagement offers chapters that emphasize the political and social implications of the debate. In the Afterword, Eduardo Mendieta joins the editor to reflect on the notion of reflexive secularization across the volume as a whole, alluding to new lines of inquiry. The handbook is an invaluable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, and a key reference for students and scholars of human geography, sociology, political science, applied philosophy, urban and public theology, planning, and urban studies.

Author : Regina Elsner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783838215686

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The Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity by Regina Elsner Pdf

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) faced various iterations of modernization throughout its history. This conflicted encounter continues in the ROC’s current resistance against—what it perceives as—Western modernity including liberal and secular values. This study examines the historical development of the ROC’s arguments against—and sometimes preferences for—modernization and analyzes which positions ended up influencing the official doctrine. The book’s systematic analysis of dogmatic treatises shows the ROC’s considerable ability of constructive engagement with various aspects of the modern world. Balancing between theological traditions of unity and plurality, the ROC’s today context of operating within an authoritarian state appears to tip the scale in favor of unity.

Author : Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kov,Ivan Vasilʹevich Kireevskiĭ
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0940262916

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On Spiritual Unity by Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kov,Ivan Vasilʹevich Kireevskiĭ Pdf

This volume brings together the religious and philosophical writings of the founders of Russian religious philosophy, Aleksei Khomiakov and Ivan Kireevsky. Both began their intellectual careers in the literary world of the 1820s. The texts collected here make the philosophical concepts of Sobornost (community, universality, wholeness, ecumenicity) and integral knowledge, available to western readers. Based on the primacy of the heart, the spiritual wholeness of the human being and the cognitive will, integral knowing moves beyond rationality to union with the object of knowledge in knowing. This book provides an introduction to Russian religious philosophy, and a profound, meditative text for anyone concerned with human and spiritual unity. Also included are two responses to Slavophile ideas by the prominent Russian philosophers Pavel Florensky and Nikolai Berdiaev.

Author : Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Religion and state
ISBN : OCLC:1128785286

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Outlines of Russian Culture by Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov Pdf

Author : Mikhail Epstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501350610

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Ideas Against Ideocracy by Mikhail Epstein Pdf

This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of culture and scholars of Russian philosophy gives for the first time a systematic examination of the development of Russian philosophy during the late Soviet period. Countering the traditional view of an intellectual wilderness under the Soviet regime, Mikhail Epstein provides a comprehensive account of Russian thought of the second half of the 20th century that is highly sophisticated without losing clarity. It provides new insights into previously mostly ignored areas such as late-Soviet Russian nationalism and Eurasianism, religious thought, cosmism and esoterism, and postmodernism and conceptualism. Epstein shows how Russian philosophy has long been trapped in an intellectual prison of its own making as it sought to create its own utopia. However, he demonstrates that it is time to reappraise Russian thought, now freed from the bonds of Soviet totalitarianism and ideocracy but nevertheless dangerously engaged into new nationalist aspirations and metaphysical radicalism. We are left with not only a new and exciting interpretation of recent Russian intellectual history, but also the opportunity to rethink our own philosophical heritage.

Author : Patrick Lally Michelson,Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299298944

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Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia by Patrick Lally Michelson,Judith Deutsch Kornblatt Pdf

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.