Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume II: Russian Culture in Modern Times

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Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno
Univ of California Press, Jun 4, 2024 - History - 346 pages
This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'—the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the project. Volume ISlavic Cultures in the Middle AgesEdited by Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes Volume IIRussian Culture in Modern TimesEdited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno Volume IIIRussian Literature in Modern TimesEdited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
 

Contents

Faith and Secularity in EighteenthCentury Russian Literacy
3
Projection Rejection
25
Religion and Irreligion in
49
Colportage and the Distribution of Holy Scripture in Late
83
HeavenonEarth and the Russian Orthodox Church
95
Tolstoy and Jesus
103
Pavel Florenskiis Path
134
The Merezhkovskys Third Testament and the Russian
158
The Old Belief and Sectarianism as Cultural Models
172
Сектанство и литература Серебряный голубь Андрея
191
Русская Греция русский Рим
245
Theological Sources
287
The Role of Orthodox Theology in Modern
311
Notes on Contributors
325
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