The Western front of the Eastern church
Subtitle: Uniate and Orthodox conflict in eighteenth-century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
By: Barbara Skinner.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780875804071
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 18th century; Europe, Eastern -- Church history -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The making of two Ruthenian confessions; title: Ruthenian parish life : diversity, poverty, and increasing uniate distinctions; title: Ruthenian clergymen : shaping diverging orthodox and uniate world views; title: New forms of opposition and identity : the politicization of the uniate/orthodox; title: Dissident rights, rebellion, and repression : confessional violence and the first partition of Poland, 1762-1773; title: Inside the Russian partition : Catholic subjects in an orthodox empire, 1772-1790; title: A continuing struggle : orthodoxy on the defensive in the commonwealth, 1773-1793; title: The reassertion of orthodoxy under Russian rule, 1793-1796.