Religious freedom in modern Russia / edited by Randall A. Poole and Paul W. Werth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poole, Randall Allen, 1964- editor.

Werth, Paul W. (Paul William), 1968- editor.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies

Kritika historical studies (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Russian and East European studies

Kritika historical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and state--Russia.

Religion and state.

Religion and state--Russia (Federation).

Religion.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Religion.

Russia.

Physical Description:

314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Summary:

Despite Russia's religiously diverse population and the strong connection between the Russian state and the Orthodox Church, the problem of religious freedom has been a driving force in the country's history. This volume gathers leading scholars to provide an extensive exploration of the evolution, experience, and contested meanings of religious freedom in Russia from the early modern period to the present, with a particular focus on the nineteenth century. Addressing different spiritual traditions, clerics and revolutionaries, ideas and lived experience, Religious Freedom in Modern Russia explores the various meanings that religious freedom, toleration, and freedom of conscience had in Russia among nonstate actors.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Faith, Freedom, and the Varieties of Russian Religious Experience p. 1 / Randall A. Poole

Chapter 2 Religious Toleration in Russian Thought, 1520-1825 p. 44 / G. M. Hamburg

Chapter 3 Freedom of Conscience in the Clerical Imagination of Russian Orthodox Thought, 1801-1865 p. 81 / Patrick Lally Michelson

Chapter 4 Freedom of Conscience, Freedom of Confession, and "Land and Freedom" in the 1860s p. 104 / Victoria Frede

Chapter 5 The Modern Martyrs of Russia: International Interest in Evangelical Christians and Religious Freedom in Late Imperial Russia p. 121 / Heather J. Coleman

Chapter 6 Missionaries of Official Orthodoxy: Agents of State Religion in Late Imperial Russia p. 142 / Daniel Scarborough

Chapter 7 Designs for Dâr al-Islâm: Religious Freedom and the Emergence of a Muslim Public Sphere, 1905-1916 p. 160 / Norihiro Naganawa

Chapter 8 Religious Freedom, the Religious Market, and Spiritual Entrepreneurship in Russia after 1997 p. 182 / J. Eugene Clay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822945499

0822945495

OCLC:

1047619116