The Optina Pustyn Monastery In The Russian Literary Imagination

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The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination

Author : Leonard J. Stanton
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination written by Leonard J. Stanton and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Kozel'sk, in Russia's Kaluga Government, was the site of an unprecedented - and as yet unequaled - period of religious and literary flowering. Optina Pustyn was a mecca for many of Russia's most prominent writers and thinkers. Distinguished visitors included Ivan Kireevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy. This study explains why Optina and its renowned "elders" held a special attraction to Russia's literary giants. It reveals how the elders' use of language was rooted in the "iconic vision" of Optina's fifteen-hundred-year-old tradition of contemplative monasticism. It is the first study to examine Optina's social gravity against the broad background of nineteenth-century institutions of Church and Intelligentsia.

Deification in Russian Religious Thought

Author : Ruth Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198836236
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Deification in Russian Religious Thought written by Ruth Coates and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the reception of the Eastern Christian Orthodox doctrine of deification by Russian religious thinkers of the immediate pre-revolutionary period.

Russia’s Uncommon Prophet

Author : Wallace L. Daniel
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751239
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Russia’s Uncommon Prophet written by Wallace L. Daniel and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucidly written biography of Aleksandr Men examines the familial and social context from which Men developed as a Russian Orthodox priest. Wallace Daniel presents a different picture of Russia and the Orthodox Church than the stereotypes found in much of the popular literature. Men offered an alternative to the prescribed ways of thinking imposed by the state and the church. Growing up during the darkest, most oppressive years in the history of the former Soviet Union, he became a parish priest who eschewed fear, who followed Christ's command "to love thy neighbor as thyself," and who attracted large, diverse groups of people in Russian society. How he accomplished those tasks and with what ultimate results are the main themes of this story. Conflict and controversy marked every stage of Men's priesthood. His parish in the vicinity of Moscow attracted the attention of the KGB, especially as it became a haven for members of the intelligentsia. He endured repeated attacks from ultraconservative, anti-Semitic circles inside the Orthodox Church. Fr. Men represented the spiritual vision of an open, non-authoritarian Christianity, and his lectures were extremely popular. He was murdered on September 9, 1990. For years, his work was unavailable in most church bookstores in Russia, and his teachings were excoriated by some both within and outside the church. But his books continue to offer hope to many throughout the world—they have sold millions of copies and are testimony to his continuing relevance and enduring significance. This important biography will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in religion, politics, and global affairs.

The Orthodox Christian World

Author : Augustine Casiday
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136314849
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Orthodox Christian World written by Augustine Casiday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last century unprecedented numbers of Christians from traditionally Orthodox societies migrated around the world. Once seen as an ‘oriental’ or ‘eastern’ phenomenon, Orthodox Christianity is now much more widely dispersed, and in many parts of the modern world one need not go far to find an Orthodox community at worship. This collection offers a compelling overview of the Orthodox world, covering the main regional traditions of Orthodox Christianity and the ways in which they have become global. The contributors are drawn from the Orthodox community worldwide and explore a rich selection of key figures and themes. The book provides an innovative and illuminating approach to the subject, ideal for students and scholars alike.

The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Author : Marcus C. Levitt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609090268
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia written by Marcus C. Levitt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity. Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture. Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.

The Heart of Russia

Author : Scott M. Kenworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199736138
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Russia written by Scott M. Kenworthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.

Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics

Author : Ines Angeli Murzaku
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317391055
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics written by Ines Angeli Murzaku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism’s continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries. Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian historiography and looks at the role of monasticism as a cultural and national identity forming determinant in the region.

Tolstoy

Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151014388
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy written by Rosamund Bartlett and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but also against traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In this exceptional biography, Bartlett delivers an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has been discovered by a new generation of readers.

Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience

Author : Malcolm V. Jones
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843313731
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience written by Malcolm V. Jones and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's foremost experts on Dostoevsky presents a new study, focusing on the religious concerns of the enigmatic author.

Tolstoi: Art and Influence

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004533435
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Tolstoi: Art and Influence written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi’s influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi’s intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. These encompass stage versions of his novels (War and Peace and Resurrection), communes founded in his name, and translations which have sought to capture the essence of his works for successive generations. Tolstoi is also compared in this volume with his contemporaries in chapters on Dostoevskii, Veselitsakaia, Rozanov and Elizabeth Gaskell. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into an unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into his immense cultural reach which continues to this day. Contributors: Carol Apollonio, Katherine Jane Briggs, Elena Govor, Nel Grillaert, Susan Layton, Cynthia Marsh, Henrietta Mondry, Richard Peace, Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev, Willem Weststeijn, Kevin Windle.

Political Symbols in Russian History

Author : Lee Trepanier
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739117880
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Political Symbols in Russian History written by Lee Trepanier and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Symbols in Russian History is one of the few works that presents an analytical and comprehensive account of Russian history and politics between the years of 988 to 2005. From Kievan Rus to Putin's Russia, this book traces the development, evolution, and impact that political symbols have had on Russian society.

Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia

Author : Heather J. Coleman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013186
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia written by Heather J. Coleman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith, this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers, of clergy and laity, nobles and merchants, workers and peasants, men and women, Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodoxy emerges here as a multidimensional and dynamic faith. Beyond enhancing our understanding of Orthodox Christianity as practiced in Imperial Russia, this thoughtfully edited volume offers broad insights into the relationship between religious narrative and social experience and reveals religion's central place in the formation of world views and narrative traditions.

Encyclopedia of Monasticism

Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787151
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Monasticism written by William M. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume Encyclopedia of Monasticism describes the monastic traditions of both Christianity and Buddhism with more than 600 entries on important monastic figures of all periods and places, surveys of countries and localities, and topical essays covering a wide range of issues (e.g., art, behavior, economics, liturgy, politics, theology, and scholarship). Coverage encompasses not only geography and history worldwide but also the contemporary dilemmas of monastic life. Recent upheavals in certain countries are highlighted (Korea, Russia, Sri Lanka, etc.). Topical essays subtitled Christian Perspectives and Buddhist Perspectives explore in imaginative fashion comparisons and contrasts between Christian and Buddhist monasticism. Encyclopedia of Monasticism also includes more than 500 color and black and white illustrations covering all aspects of monastic life, art, and architecture.

Keeping the Faith

Author : Jennifer Jean Wynot
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446400
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Keeping the Faith written by Jennifer Jean Wynot and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, in both in the spiritual and political realms, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s. She shows how, throughout the Soviet period, Orthodox monks and nuns continued to provide spiritual strength to the people, in spite of severe persecution, and despite the ambivalent relationship the Russian state has had to the Russian church since the reign of Ivan the Terrible.Focusing her study on two provinces, Smolensk and Moscow, Wynot describes the Soviet oppression and the clandestine struggles of the monks and nuns to uphold the traditions of monasticism and Orthodoxy. Their success against heavy odds enabled them to provide a counterculture to the Soviet regime. Indeed, of all the pre-1917 institutions, the Orthodox Church proved the most resilient. Why and how it managed to persevere despite the enormous hostility against it is a topic that continues to fascinate both the general public and historians. Based on previously unavailable Russian archival sources as well as written memoirs and interviews with surviving monks and nuns, Wynot analyzes the monasteries? adaptation to the Bolshevik regime and she challenges standard Western assumptions that Communism effectively killed the Orthodox Church in Russia. She shows that in fact, the role of monks and nuns in Orthodox monasteries and convents is crucial, and they are largely responsible for the continuation of Orthodoxy in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution. Keeping the Faith offers a wealth of new information and a new perspective that will be of interest not only to students of Russian history and communism, but also to scholars interested in church-state relations.

The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Author : John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444392549
Total Pages : 2234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity written by John Anthony McGuckin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 2234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today. An outstanding reference work providing the first English language multi-volume account of the key historical, liturgical, doctrinal features of Eastern Orthodoxy, including the Non-Chalcedonian churches Explores of the major traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy in detail, including the Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopic, Slavic, Romanian, Syriac churches Uniquely comprehensive, it is edited by one of the leading scholars in the field and provides authoritative but accessible articles by a range of top international academics and Orthodox figures Spans the period from Late Antiquity to the present, encompassing subjects including history, theology, liturgy, monasticism, sacramentology, canon law, philosophy, folk culture, architecture, archaeology, martyrology, hagiography, all alongside a large and generously detailed prosopography Structured alphabetically and topically cross-indexed, with entries ranging from 100 to 6,000 words

Freedom and the Captive Mind

Author : Wallace L. Daniel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501777351
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and the Captive Mind written by Wallace L. Daniel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations. Father Yakunin believed the survival of the Church depended on its willingness to reform. When he was suspended, Yakunin continued to fight the system, working to expose the persecution of religious believers in the Soviet Union. After years of exile, Yakunin entered politics. He was criticized by religious authorities, denounced by nationalist politicians, and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. As Wallace L. Daniel demonstrates, the letters Yakunin wrote and his revelations about the relationship between the Church hierarchy and the KGB stand as monuments of courage and the determination to reveal the truth about abuses of power and the authoritarian mindset that predominated in both institutions.

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism

Author : Bernice M. Kaczynski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191003964
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism written by Bernice M. Kaczynski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism. It addresses, for the first time in one volume, the multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'. The essays in the book span a period of nearly two thousand years--from late ancient times, through the medieval and early modern eras, on to the present day. Taken together, they offer, not a narrative survey, but rather a map of the vast terrain. The intention of the Handbook is to provide a balance of some essential historical coverage with a representative sample of current thinking on monasticism. It presents the work of both academic and monastic authors, and the essays are best understood as a series of loosely-linked episodes, forming a long chain of enquiry, and allowing for various points of view. The authors are a diverse and international group, who bring a wide range of critical perspectives to bear on pertinent themes and issues. They indicate developing trends in their areas of specialisation. The individual contributions, and the volume as a whole, set out an agenda for the future direction of monastic studies. In today's world, where there is increasing interest in all world monasticisms, where scholars are adopting more capacious, global approaches to their investigations, and where monks and nuns are casting a fresh eye on their ancient traditions, this publication is especially timely.