Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution

Name: Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution
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ISBN: 9780195154658

ISBN-10: 0195154657

ISBN-13: 9780195154658

Edition: 2003

Authors: Vera Shevzov

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Orthodox Christianity in Russia has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence. Many Russians are now looking to the history of their faith as they try to rebuild a lost way of life. Vera Shevzov has spent ten years researching Orthodoxy as it was lived in the years before the 1917 Revolution. In Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution, she draws on a rich variety of previously untapped archival sources and published works unavailable in the West to reconstruct the religious world of lay people. Shevzov traces the means by which men and women shaped their religious lives in an ecclesiastical system that was often dominated by bureaucrats and monastic bishops.…

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List price: $155.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.30" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution


Introduction



Competing Images of Community and Laity



Sacred Place and the Claim on Orthodox Identity



Symbols of Ecclesial Antinomies



The Setting of Sacred Time



Miracles, Memory, and Sacred History



The Message of Mary


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index