Colonizing Russia's Promised Land : Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe / Aileen E. Friesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friesen, Aileen E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state.

Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Colonizing Russia's Promised Land

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Russian state officials aspired to lay claim to land that was politically under their authority, but remained culturally unfamiliar. By exploring the formation and evolution of Omsk diocese--a settlement mission--Colonizing Russia's Promised Land reveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia's imperial periphery by "russifying" the land and marginalizing the Indigenous Kazakh population."

Contents:

A Settler Diocese

Churches as a national project

Parishes under construction

The politics of pastoring

Living and dying among strangers

An anthill of Baptists in a land of Muslims.

Notes:

Includes index.

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