The Russian Orthodox Church And Modernity

Author : Regina Elsner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Regina Elsner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 3838275683

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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." -- from publisher's website.

Author : Andreas Buss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047402725

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The Russian-Orthodox Tradition and Modernity by Andreas Buss Pdf

The book attempts to identify the uniqueness of the Russian-Orthodox religious tradition and to contrast it with two of the characteristics of modern Western society: its particular economic ethics and individualism. Max Weber and Louis Dumont provide the theoretical framework. The first part of the analysis is concerned with the economic ethics among Orthodox Russians, Old Believers and the adherents of various sects in the historical context of Russian society. The second part centres on the place and the kind of individualism in the Orthodox tradition since its beginnings in early monasticism and up to the twentieth century. The comparative perspective does not only shed new light on Russia but also on the development of Western individualism and on the Janus-like features of a traditional culture exposed to modernization.

Author : Sebastian Rimestad
Publisher : Peter Lang D
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 3631624379

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The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1940) by Sebastian Rimestad Pdf

After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, Orthodox Christians in Estonia and Latvia had to rethink their place in society and reorganise the local Orthodox Church. The Church was challenged both by the new political circumstances and by societal antagonism. In both cases, the local ecclesiastic authorities considered themselves independent from the Patriarchate of Moscow, although in very different fashions. This study uses primarily periodicals and other published sources from the period between 1917 and 1940 to shed light on the internal discussions in the respective Orthodox Churches on issues of authority, identity, and history. This includes creating adequate structures for the Church, reforming liturgical elements and emphasising the positive role of Orthodox Christianity in Estonian and Latvian history.

Author : Roy R. Robson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0875802052

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Old Believers in Modern Russia by Roy R. Robson Pdf

Author : Kristina Stoeckl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Patrick Lally Michelson,Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

Author : Marietta Stepaniants
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351905145

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Religion and Identity in Modern Russia by Marietta Stepaniants Pdf

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.

Author : Jefferson J. A. Gatrall,Douglas M. Greenfield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271036779

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Alter Icons by Jefferson J. A. Gatrall,Douglas M. Greenfield Pdf

"A collection of essays by eleven scholars of Russian history, art, literature, cinema, philosophy, and theology that track key shifts in the production, circulation, and consumption of the Russian icon from Peter the Great's Enlightenment to the post-Soviet revival of the Orthodox Church"--Provided by publisher.

Author : David Goldfrank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 168053940X

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Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate by David Goldfrank Pdf

Focusing on one of Russia's most powerful and wide-reaching institutions in a period of shattering dynastic crisis and immense territorial and administrative expansion, this book addresses manifestations of religious thought, practice, and artifacts revealing the permeability of political boundaries and fluid transfers of ideas, texts, people, objects, and "sacred spaces" with the rest of the Christian world. The historical background to the establishment Russia's Patriarchate, its chief religious authority, in various eparchies from Late Antiquity sets the stage. "The Tale of the Establishment of the Patriarchate," crucial for legitimizing and promoting both this institution and close cooperation with the established tetrarchy of Eastern Orthodox patriarchs emerged in the 1620s. Their attitude remained mixed, however, with persisting unease concerning Russian pretensions to equality. Regarding the most crucial "other" for Christianity's self-identification, the contradictions inherent in Christianity's appropriation of the Old Testament became apparent in, for example, the realm's imperfectly enforced ban on resident Jews. The concept of ordained royalty emerged in the purported co-rulership of the initial Romanov Tsar Michael and his father, Patriarch Filaret. As a pertinent foil to Moscow's patriarchs, challenges arose from Petro Mohyla, a metropolitan of the then totally separate Kievan church, whose Academy became the most important educational institution for the Russian Orthodox Church into the eighteenth century, combining a Romanian regal, Polish aristocratic, and Ukrainian Orthodox self-identity.

Author : David Goldfrank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1680539418

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Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate by David Goldfrank Pdf

Patriarch Nikon, the most energetic, creative, influential, and obstinate of Russia's early religious leaders, dominates this book. As Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Nikon's most important initiative was to bring Russian religious rituals into line with Greek Orthodox tradition, from which Russia's practices had diverted. Kiev's Monastery of the Caves served as a medium for his transmission of Greek notions. Nikon and Tsar Alexis I (r. 1645-1676) envisioned Russia's transformed into a new Holy Land. Eventually, Nikon became a challenger for Imperial authority. While his reforms endure, failed policies and poor political judgment were decisive in his fall and in the Patriarchate's reduction in status. Ultimately, the reforms of Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) led to its replacement by a new, government-controlled body, the Holy Synod, which nevertheless carried out a continuity of Nikon's policies. This exceptional volume contextualizes Nikon's Patriarchate as part of the broader continuities in Russian History and serves as a bridge to the present, where Russia is forging new relationships between Church and power.

Author : Daniela Kalkandjieva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317657750

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The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948 by Daniela Kalkandjieva Pdf

This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union’s leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies, the loss of the former western territories of the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union’s isolation from the rest of the world and the consequent separation of Russian emigrés from the church were disastrous for the church, which declined very significantly in the 1920s and 1930s. However, when Poland was partitioned in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Stalin allowed the Patriarch of Moscow, Sergei, jurisdiction over orthodox congregations in the conquered territories and went on, later, to encourage the church to promote patriotic activities as part of the resistance to the Nazi invasion. He agreed a Concordat with the church in 1943, and continued to encourage the church, especially its claims to jurisdiction over émigré Russian orthodox churches, in the immediate postwar period. Based on extensive original research, the book puts forward a great deal of new information and overturns established thinking on many key points.

Author : Andrew Louth
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830899623

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Modern Orthodox Thinkers by Andrew Louth Pdf

Andrew Louth, one of the most respected authorities on Orthodoxy, introduces us to twenty key thinkers from the last two centuries. He begins with the Philokalia, the influential Orthodox collection published in 1782 which marked so many subsequent writers. The colorful characters, poets and thinkers who populate this book range from Romania, Serbia, Greece, England, France and also include exiles from Communist Russia. Louth offers historical and biographical sketches that help us understand the thought and impact of these men and women. Only some of them belong to the ranks of professional theologians. Many were neither priests nor bishops, but influential laymen. The book concludes with an illuminating chapter on Metropolitan Kallistos and the theological vision of the Philokalia.

Author : Detlef Pollack,Gergely Rosta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198801665

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Religion and Modernity by Detlef Pollack,Gergely Rosta Pdf

This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasize either processes of religious decline or of religious upswing. For example, secularization theory usually includes a couple of relevant factors--such as functional differentiation, economic affluence or social equality--in order to account for religious change. However, the result of such a theory's empirical analyses seems to be certain in advance, namely that the social relevance of religion is decreasing. In contrast, the religious market model devised by sociologists of religion in the US is inclined to detect everywhere processes of religious upsurge. Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison avoids a purely theoretically based perspective on religious changes. For this reason, Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta do not begin with theoretical propositions but with questions. The authors raise the question of how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies, and explain what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes.

Author : Paul Valliere,Randall A. Poole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000427936

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Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia by Paul Valliere,Randall A. Poole Pdf

This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices. Following a substantial introduction to the phenomenon of Russian legal consciousness, the volume presents twelve concise, non-technical portraits of modern Russian jurists and philosophers of law whose thought was shaped significantly by Orthodox Christian faith or theistic belief. Also included are chapters on the role the Orthodox Church has played in the legal culture of Russia and on the contribution of modern Russian scholars to the critical investigation of Orthodox canon law. The collection embraces the most creative period of Russian legal thought—the century and a half from the later Enlightenment to the Russian emigration following the Bolshevik Revolution. This book will merit the attention of anyone interested in the connections between law and religion in modern times.