Title: Seeking God : the recovery of religious identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia /
Authors: Batalden, Stephen K.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church History.; Russia (Federation) Religious life and customs.; Ukraine Religious life and customs.; Georgia (Republic) Religious life and customs.
Abstract: "From the reopening of the churches to the expressions of religious charity to the revival of monasticism, signs of recovery of Eastern Orthodox religious culture are evident throughout the former Soviet lands. While occasioned in part by the death of communism, the new religious consciousness is rooted in living traditions that antedate by centuries the relatively brief period of Soviet rule. Addressing these living traditions, this volume's essays highlight both historical and contemporary sources of religious identity."--BOOK JACKET. "Seeking God examines the roots and recovery of Orthodox religious culture in Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia. The authors of the essays are leading international authorities on Orthodoxy, and their contributions reflect the growing scholarly interest in Orthodox popular culture, as well as the linkage of confessional identity with nationalism in the Eastern Orthodox world."--BOOK JACKET. "Following an introduction by Stephen K. Batalden and an opening essay on the life and work of Father Aleksandr Men', the essays deal with such topics as Old Believers, women's religious communities, schism and cultural conflict, architecture, contemporary politics of the Russian Bible, and sources for studying Eastern Christianity."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction / Stephen K. Batalden -- The life and work of Father Aleksander Men' / Michael A. Meerson -- Dvoeverie and popular religion / Eve Levin -- The wages of sin : the decline of public penance in imperial Russia / Gregory L. freeze -- Popular Piety, local initiative, and the founding of women's religious communities in Russia, 1764-1907 / Brenda Meehan -- The schism and cultural conflict in the seventeenth century / Boris A. Uspensky -- Interpreting the fate of old beleiver communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Robert O. crummey -- An architecture of change : old believer liturgical spaces in late imperial Russia / Roy R. Robson -- The third rebirth of the Ukranian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the religious situation in Ukraine, 1989-1991 / Frank E. Sysyn -- Reflections on the current state of the Georgian Church and nation / Fairy von Lilienfeld -- The contemporary politics of the Russian Bible : religious publication in a period of Glasnost / Stephen K. Bataldan -- Orthodox pilgrimage and Russian landholding in Jerusalem : the British colonial record / Stephen K. Batalden and Michael D. Palma -- Using Vatican archives in the study of Eastern Christianity / Charles Frazee.