The old faith and the Russian land : a historical ethnography of ethics in the Urals / Douglas Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Douglas, 1972-

Series:

Culture and society after socialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Russia (Federation)--Sepych (Permskai͡a oblastʹ)--History.

Ethics.

Old Believers--Russia (Federation)--Sepych (Permskai͡a oblastʹ)--History.

Old Believers.

Ethnology--Russia (Federation)--Sepych (Permskai͡a oblastʹ).

Ethnology.

History.

Russia (Federation)--Sepych (Permskai︠a︡ oblastʹ).

Sepych (Permskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)--Moral conditions.

Sepych (Permskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia).

Physical Description:

xvii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

Summary:

The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative. Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town and some of the major transformations of Russian history, showing how townspeople have responded to a long series of attempts to change them and their communities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and the marketization, religious revival, and ongoing political transformations of post-Soviet times.

Contents:

In search of salvation on the Stroganov estates

Faith, family, and land after emancipation

Youth : exemplars of rural socialism

Elders : Christian ascetics in the Soviet countryside

New risks and inequalities in the household sector

Which khoziain? Whose moral community?

Society, culture, and the churching of Sepych

Separating post-Soviet worlds? : priestly baptisms and priestless funerals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801447976

0801447976

9780801475207

0801475201

OCLC:

320798687