Author: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Publisher: Orthodox Christianity and Cont
ISBN: 9780823299508
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 082329952X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism. This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the US. These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals and faith of a foreign power for larger, transnational political ends. Offering insights into this rarely considered religious world, including its far-right political roots that nourish the embrace of Putin’s Russia, this ethnography shows how religious conversion is tied to larger issues of social politics, allegiance, (anti)democracy, and citizenship. These conversions offer us a window onto both global politics and foreign affairs, while also allowing us to see how particular communities in the U.S. are grappling with social transformations in the twenty-first century. With broad implications for our understanding of both conservative Christianity and right-wing politics, as well as contemporary Russian-American relations, this book provides insight in the growing constellations of far-right conservatism. While Russian Orthodox converts are more likely to form the moral minority rather than the moral majority, they are an important gauge for understanding the powerful philosophical shifts occurring in the current political climate in the United States and what they might mean for the future of American values, ideals, and democracy.

Author: G. Diment
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137089148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.

Author: G. Diment
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312060725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.

Author: Kåre Johan Mjør
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Reformulating Russia provides a thorough narratological and contextual analysis of Russian émigré historiography as it appears in Georgii Fedotov’s Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii’s The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev’s The Russian Idea and Vasilii Zenkovskii’s History of Russian Philosophy.

Author: Monique Raphel High
Publisher: Penner Publishing
ISBN: 9781944179137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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As one prominent Jewish family, the Gunzburgs fight for their principles, the rest of Russia adheres to the malicious and unfaltering laws of the Tsar. Torn between what is expected of them and what their hearts truly want, the Gunzburgs begin to forge a new path-in search of their own identity and place in a world full of forbidden love, shattering betrayals, and war. Can they find where they truly belong and where their passion lies while the dynasty crumbles around them? "Inspired by the diaries of Monique Raphel High's grandmother, this epic saga will take readers on a journey through Russian history as witnessed by one woman who lived it."

Author: Philip S. Meilinger
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
ISBN: 9788170622826
Category : Air power
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Author: Bruce W. Durbin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595258557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Going to Heaven or Hell? There will come a time in every person's life, when they will no longer be suspended between Heaven and Hell... ...They will be either in Heaven or Hell."The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: Repent ye, and believe the gospel." --Mark 1:15 Between Heaven and Hell is a compliation of articles aimed at providing encouragement to those who strive toward Heaven.

Author: Sophie Koulomzin
Publisher: RSM Press
ISBN: 9780913836729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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In her autobiography Sophie Koulomzin, long honored as a pioneer in Orthodox religious education in America, tells of the many worlds in which she has lived and worked: childhood on family estates in Old Russia; the hardships of revolutionary Moscow; life in the Russian emigration in Western Europe and as a foreign student in America; the challenge of combining marriage and a family with service in the Church; making a new life in America after world War II; returning to Russia, this time as a tourist. She shares with us the experiences -- and the wisdom -- of a lifetime. In doing so, she gives us in microcosm the history of a fascinating generation. Book jacket.

Author: Richard Linthicum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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... Describing and picturing the mighty conflict, the hitherto resistless march of Russian force across Asia, and the advance of Japan into a position of world-power among the nations ; with historical and descriptive sketches of Russia, Siberia, Japan, Korea and Manchuria, containing many maps and illustrations.