The Dangerous God : : Christianity and the Soviet Experiment /

The Dangerous God : : Christianity and the Soviet Experiment / / ed. by Dominic Erdozain.

At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spirit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bourdeaux, Michael,
Burgess, John P.,
Daniel, Wallace,
Dennen, Xenia,
Erdozain, Dominic,
Fagan, Geraldine,
Lingenfelter, Scott,
Robson, Roy R.,
Tapley, Lauren,
Warhola, James W,
Zitzewitz, Josephine von,
deGraffenried, Julie,
HerausgeberIn:
Erdozain, Dominic,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (277 p.) :; 4 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION The Rhythm of the Saints
  • 1 EMPOWERING THE FAITHFUL. The Unintended Consequences of Bolshevik Religious Policies
  • 2 COMBATING GOD AND GRANDMA. The Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and the Battle for Childhood
  • 3 PERSECUTION, COLLUSION, AND LIBERATION The Russian Orthodox Church, from Stalin to Gorbachev
  • 4 "I AM A FIGHTER BY NATURE" Fr. Gleb Iakunin and the Defense of Religious Liberty
  • 5 "AN INWARD MUSIC" Revolution and Resurrection in Doctor Zhivago
  • 6 "THE PEARL OF AN UNREASONABLE THOUGHT" Religion and the Poetic Imagination
  • 7 "I HASTEN TO ESTABLISH A COMMON LANGUAGE WITH YOU" Orthodox Christian Dissidents and the Human Rights Movement
  • 8 THE ORTHODOX LITURGY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE
  • 9 "AND I WILL TELL OF THE BEST PEOPLE IN ALL THE EARTH" Faith and Resilience in the Gulag
  • 10 "THERE ARE THINGS IN HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CALLED BY THEIR PROPER NAMES" Evaluating Russian Orthodox Collaboration with the Soviet State
  • 11 THE USEFUL GOD Religion and Public Authority in Post -Soviet Russia
  • AFTERWORD Whether in Words or Deeds, Known and Unknown
  • Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index

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