At the Margins of Orthodoxy : : Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, 1827-1905 / / Paul W. Werth.

In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various faiths? Did the nature of tsarist rule change over t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 maps, 8 halftones, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Terminology
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical and Cultural Contexts
  • 2. Orthodoxy Challenged
  • 3. Mission and Baptism
  • 4. The Limits of Missionary
  • 5. Changing Conceptions of Difference:J Assimilation:J and Faith
  • 6. The Great Apostasy of 1866
  • 7. New Discoveries: Islam and Its Containment
  • 8. The Mari Religious Movement and Non- Russian Monasticism
  • 9. From Missionary Reform to ""Freedom of Conscience"
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index