Of Religion and Empire : : Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia /

Of Religion and Empire : : Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia / / ed. by Robert Geraci, Michael Khodarkovsky.

Russia's ever-expanding imperial boundaries encompassed diverse peoples and religions. Yet Russian Orthodoxy remained inseparable from the identity of the Russian empire-state, which at different times launched conversion campaigns not only to "save the souls" of animists and bring de...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Clay, J. Eugene,
Geraci, Robert P.,
Kan, Sergei,
Kefeli, Agnès,
Keller, Shoshana,
Khodarkovsky, Michael,
Klier, John D.,
Michels, Georg,
Mostashari, Firouzeh,
Schorkowitz, Dittmar,
Weeks, Theodore R.,
Werth, Paul W.,
HerausgeberIn:
Geraci, Robert,
Khodarkovsky, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 14 halftones, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. The Western Regions: Christians and Jews
  • Chapter One. Rescuing the Orthodox: The Church Policies of Archbishop Afanasii of Kholmogory, 1682-1702
  • Chapter Two. Orthodox Missionaries and "Orthodox Heretics" in Russia, 1886-1917
  • Chapter Three. Between Rome and Tsargrad: The Uniate Church in Imperial Russia
  • Chapter Four. State Policies and the Conversion of Jews in Imperial Russia
  • II. Converting Animists and Buddhists
  • Chapter Five. The Conversion of Non-Christians in Early Modern Russia
  • Chapter Six. Big Candles and "Internal Conversion": The Mari Animist Reformation and Its Russian Appropriations
  • Chapter Seven. Russian Orthodox Missionaries at Home and Abroad: The Case of Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous Peoples
  • Chapter Eight. The Orthodox Church, Lamaism, and Shamanism among the Buriats and Kalmyks, 1825-1925
  • III. Facing Islam
  • Chapter Nine. Colonial Dilemmas: Russian Policies in the Muslim Caucasus
  • Chapter Ten. The Role of Tatar and Kriashen Women in the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge, 1800-1870
  • Chapter Eleven. Going Abroad or Going to Russia? Orthodox Missionaries in the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917
  • Chapter Twelve. Conversion to the New Faith: Marxism-Leninism and Muslims in the Soviet Empire
  • Conclusion
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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