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The Heart of Russia : Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society After 1825.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Woodrow Wilson Center Book SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (547 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199379415
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Heart of RussiaDDC classification:
  • 271/.8194731
LOC classification:
  • BX583.T7 .K469 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Reviving Monasticism in Modern Russia -- 2 Trinity-Sergius: The Heart of Russia -- 3 Gethsemane: The Cradle of Monasticism -- 4 Monks: Social History and Spiritual Life -- 5 Pilgrims: Pilgrimage, Relics, and Miracles -- 6 Reform: Revered Elders and Monastic Congresses -- 7 Politics: Monasticism on the Eve of Revolution -- 8 Revolution: Trinity-Sergius and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1921 -- 9 Golgotha: Revival and Terror, 1921-1938 -- 10 Epilogue: Resurrection -- Notes -- Glossary -- Names -- A -- D -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- N -- P -- T -- V -- Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Russian monasticism experienced revivals during the reign of Nicholas I, the post-World War II era, and the post-Soviet period, demonstrating that the impulse to renounce the contemporary world for the cloister is a central pattern of Russian religiosity. Scott Mark Kenworthy provides the first comprehensive analysis of these monastic revivals, presenting a fundamentally new picture of religion in modern Russia.
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Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Reviving Monasticism in Modern Russia -- 2 Trinity-Sergius: The Heart of Russia -- 3 Gethsemane: The Cradle of Monasticism -- 4 Monks: Social History and Spiritual Life -- 5 Pilgrims: Pilgrimage, Relics, and Miracles -- 6 Reform: Revered Elders and Monastic Congresses -- 7 Politics: Monasticism on the Eve of Revolution -- 8 Revolution: Trinity-Sergius and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1921 -- 9 Golgotha: Revival and Terror, 1921-1938 -- 10 Epilogue: Resurrection -- Notes -- Glossary -- Names -- A -- D -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- N -- P -- T -- V -- Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Russian monasticism experienced revivals during the reign of Nicholas I, the post-World War II era, and the post-Soviet period, demonstrating that the impulse to renounce the contemporary world for the cloister is a central pattern of Russian religiosity. Scott Mark Kenworthy provides the first comprehensive analysis of these monastic revivals, presenting a fundamentally new picture of religion in modern Russia.

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