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Book Synopsis The Quest for Russia's Soul by : Perry Lynn Glanzer
Download or read book The Quest for Russia's Soul written by Perry Lynn Glanzer and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's comprehensive research and first-person experience result in an informative, instructive, and compelling book.
Download or read book Russian Odyssey written by Nancy Seifer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Odyssey is the story of a seeker whose quest leads her back to the unfinished business of a previous lifetime. Unaware of her souls hidden agenda, she first visits the Soviet Union as a citizen diplomat. While there, she is inspired to write a book about the Soul of Russia. Through the ensuing interplay between her own soul and the Russian soul, during the 1990s, she ultimately discovers the purpose of her lifes journey. Russian Odyssey is the outcome of her decade-long struggle. It is an honest book about the challenges faced by seekers of Truth on the threshold of the Aquarian Age.
Download or read book Russian Magic written by Cherry Gilchrist and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Russia, old ways of perceiving the spirits of home and nature still prevail. Fairy stories, folk art, and calendar customs carry hints of the old gods and offer a now rare way of linking human life to the landscape. This is as true for city dwellers and villagers, for the Russian soul is open to the power of myth and the mysteries of the universe. This book explains how Russia's concept of soul ("dusha") and sensitivity to the landscape extends to archaeologists, scientists, and doctors in Russia, who retain an open-minded approach and a keen interest in psychic phenomena, along with folk traditions and faith healing. Author Cherry Gilchrist has traveled often to Russia and researched its traditional lore, gaining knowledge she interweaves into this book. She blends that first-hand knowledge with serious research to paint a lively picture of these remarkable magical traditions and their enduring power.
Download or read book Russia and Soul written by Dale Pesmen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography of everyday life in contemporary Russia is also an examination of discourses and practices of "soul" or dusha. Russian soul has historically appeared as a myth, a consoling fiction, and a trope of national and individual self-definition that drew romantic foreigners to Russia. Dale Pesmen shows that in the 1990s this "soul" was scorned, worshipped, and used to create, manipulate, and exploit cultural capital. Pesmen focuses on "soul" in part as what people chose to do and how they did it, especially practices considered "definitive" of Russians, such as hospitality, the use of alcoholic beverages, steam baths, Russian language, music, and suffering. Attempting to avoid narrow definitions of soul as a thing, Pesmen developed a new way of structuring ethnographic interviews.During her stay in a formerly "closed" military industrial city and surrounding villages, Pesmen spent time on public transportation and in kitchens, steam baths, vegetable gardens, shops, and workplaces. She uses stories from her fieldwork along with examples from the media and literature to introduce a phenomenology of russkaia dusha and of related American and other non-Russian metaphysical notions, exploring diverse elements in their makeup, examining and questioning the world created when people believe in the existence of such "deep," "vast," "enigmatic," "internal" centers. Among theoretical issues she addresses are those of power, community, self, exchange, coherence, and morality. Pesmen's attention to dusha gives her a multifaceted perspective on Russian culture and society and informs her rich portrayal of life in a Russian city at a historically critical moment.
Download or read book Alex Leonovich written by Patricia Souder and published by Horizon Books Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Leonovich was born in Russia and later emigrated to America. In 1945 he began broadcasting to Russia from HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Twenty years later he found out that literally millions of Russians were reponding to his message. Photo section included.
Book Synopsis The Light of the Russian Soul by : ????? ????????? ????????
Download or read book The Light of the Russian Soul written by ????? ????????? ???????? and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating memoir, Elena Pisareva provides perhaps the only personal account of the Russian Theosophical Society from its beginning in the late 1800s to its dissolution in the mid-20th century. She vividly portrays Anna Kamensky’s struggle to establish and maintain the group amidst internal pressures and a hostile prerevolutionary government. Harrowing stories depict the members' persecution and their flight from the Red Army. Pisareva’s invaluable perspective, faithful reporting, and flair for detail make this a must-read for Russian history buffs.
Book Synopsis It’s Russia, My Son. A (partial) Roadmap of the Russian Soul by : Sean Stewart
Download or read book It’s Russia, My Son. A (partial) Roadmap of the Russian Soul written by Sean Stewart and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its very name conjures images of a vast and trackless landscape, where snow-covered onion domes peep over heavy stone fortress walls. Its history is an epic populated by dreamers, madmen and geniuses who left an indelible imprint on the national character. Above all, it is a place where the 21st century collides with the 12th, where the radiant future was born and the past is not really the past. “It’s Russia, My Son” pulls back the veil which has long shrouded this land in mystery, exploring the mindset of a people who have shaped, and continue to shape, the world we live in. A romp through the history and culture of the world’s largest nation, It’s Russia, My Son is a quest to find out what really makes Russians tick. Attitudes towards power, love, friendship, religion and warfare have all played a role in forming the legendary Russian soul. By exploring these themes among many others, the reader will come away with a “roadmap” of the Russian soul, in all its glory and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph. The book will appeal to general readers, as well as travelers, explorers and historians looking for a fresh vantage point from which to view one of the world’s most intriguing nations.
Book Synopsis Dying for Ideas by : Costica Bradatan
Download or read book Dying for Ideas written by Costica Bradatan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. The book tells the story of the philosopher's encounter with death as seen from several angles: the tradition of philosophy as an art of living; the body as the site of self-transcending; death as a classical philosophical topic; taming death and self-fashioning; finally, the philosophers' scapegoating and their live performance of a martyr's death, followed by apotheosis and disappearance into myth. While rooted in the history of philosophy, Dying for Ideas is an exercise in breaking disciplinary boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fasting unto death" and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and self-fashioning and the art of the essay.
Book Synopsis A Search for the Russian Soul by : Kelly A. O'Neill
Download or read book A Search for the Russian Soul written by Kelly A. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader by : Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Download or read book Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader written by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is not only vast, it is also culturally diverse, the core of an empire that spanned Eurasia. In addition to the majority Russian Orthodox and various other Christian groups, the Russian Federation includes large communities of Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and members of other religious groups, some with ancient historical roots. All are in a state of ferment, and securing formal state recognition for specific communities is often daunting. This collection provides entry into the diversity of Russia's religious communities. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer's introduction to the volume illuminates major political, social, and cultural-anthropological trends. The book is organized by religious tradition or identity, with further thematic perspectives on each set of readings. The authors include ethnologists, sociologists, political analysts, and religious leaders from many regions of the Federation. They analyze the changing dynamics of religion and politics within each community and in the context of the current drive to recentralize both political and religious authority in Moscow. Topical coverage extends from reassertions of Russian Orthodoxy to activities of Christian and Muslim missionaries to the revival of many other religions, including indigenous shamanic ones.
Download or read book Russia and Soul written by Dale Pesmen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. Situating soul. Is soul a thing? O.M.S.K. -- pt. 2. Against and for dusha. In public transportation and in the soul : you call this life? A channel between worlds. The language of music and the Russian language. The baths : a celebration for soul and body. Story : For Anna Viktorovna -- pt. 3. Everyone wants something, but only through someone. Two stories : Decency, generosity. Do not have a hundred rubles, have instead a hundred friends. Story : Pulling something out of a hat. Like the Trojan Horse's gut : hospitality and nationalism. Standing bottles, washing deals, and drinking for the soul. If you want to live you've got to krutit'sia : crooked and straight -- pt. 4. Authority. Depth, openings and closings. Story : A second soul. If you want to know a man, give him power -- pt. 5. Togetherness. Those who poke into my soul : Bakhtin, Dostoevsky, love. We lost some neatness -- pt. 6. Conclusions. Two discussions : semantics and national character, homo sovieticus. Epilogue. Non-Russian souls.
Book Synopsis The Soul of Russia - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Winifred Stephens Whale
Download or read book The Soul of Russia - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Winifred Stephens Whale and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Scandal of Evangelism by : Elmer John Thiessen
Download or read book The Scandal of Evangelism written by Elmer John Thiessen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's multi-cultural and multi-religious world, evangelism is often viewed as scandalous, not only by those who are opposed to anything religious, but also by many Christians. In this book, Elmer Thiessen provides a response to those who find most or even all Christian evangelism objectionable. He does this through a careful analysis of what the Bible says about the ethics of evangelism. Based on this inductive study, mainly of the New Testament, Thiessen proposes thirty guidelines for ethical evangelism. Part II examines some specific contexts that pose unique challenges for doing evangelism ethically--evangelism of children, evangelism within a professional context like the secular academy, evangelism within the context of humanitarian aid, and finally the problem of proselytism, understood in the special and narrow sense of sheep-stealing.
Book Synopsis The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church by : Katja Richters
Download or read book The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church written by Katja Richters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Russian Orthodox Church has become a more prominent part of post-Soviet Russia. A number of assumptions exist regarding the Church’s relationship with the Russian state: that the Church has always been dominated by Russia’s secular elites; that the clerics have not sufficiently fought this domination and occasionally failed to act in the Church’s best interest; and that the Church was turned into a Soviet institution during the twentieth century. This book challenges these assumptions. It demonstrates that church-state relations in post-communist Russia can be seen in a much more differentiated way, and that the church is not subservient, very much having its own agenda. Yet at the same time it is sharing the state’s, and Russian society’s nationalist vision. The book analyses the Russian Orthodox Church’s political culture, focusing on the Putin and Medvedev eras from 2000. It examines the upper echelons of the Moscow Patriarchate in relation to the governing elite and to Russian public opinion, explores the role of the church in the formation of state religious policy, and the church’s role within the Russian military. It discusses how the Moscow Patriarchate is asserting itself in former Soviet republics outside Russia, especially in Estonia, Ukraine and Belarus. It concludes by re-emphasising that, although the church often mirrors the Kremlin’s political preferences, it most definitely acts independently.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Russian Soul by : Ralph Ennis
Download or read book An Introduction to the Russian Soul written by Ralph Ennis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History Of Russia Volume 2 by : Walter G. Moss
Download or read book A History Of Russia Volume 2 written by Walter G. Moss and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.
Book Synopsis Mystifying Russian soul by : Nikolai Gogol
Download or read book Mystifying Russian soul written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 7968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the name of this composite book “Mystifying Russian soul”? Let’s apply to Wikipedia: “The concept arouse in the second part of the 19th century due to a philosophy of the leading Russian writers such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. In their popular in Europe books not ethic, but aesthetic principles as well as not entertaining, but moral needs are playing the dominant role. “Spirit” of such writings turned into “Soul” and lead to a concept “Mystifying Russian soul” popular abroad. Except Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy almost all the writers who became classics of Russian and world literature took part in this process. The composite book “Mystifying Russian soul” contains more than twenty their novels, tales, plays and poems. Contents: Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol Taras Bulba Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin The Daughter Of The Commandant Alexander Pushkin The Bakchesarian Fountain Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Children Ivan Goncharov Oblomov Anton Chekhov The Witch and Other Stories Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov The Three Sisters Mikhail Lermontov A Hero of Our Time Aleksandr Ostrovsky The Storm Mikhail Saltykov A Family of Noblemen Aleksandr Kuprin The Duel Maxim Gorky Mother
