The American YMCA and Russian culture
Subtitle: the preservation and expansion of Orthodox Christianity, 1900-1940
By: Matthew Lee Miller
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781498503877; 9780739177563; 9780739177570
Subjects: Missions; Russians; Church work with men; Orthodox Eastern Church; Relations; YMCA of the USA; Russkoe studencheskoe khristīanskoe dvizhenīe; Services for; Young men; Protestant churches; Young Men's Christian associations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The YMCA and Russia: a profile of good works; title: The YMCA and Russia: wrestling with the issues; title: Confessional confrontation: perceptions, images, and correctives; title: Work among working Russians; title: "Service with fighting men": the Y among soldiers; title: The Russian Student Christian Movement at home; title: The Russian Student Christian Movement abroad; title: "The hunger for books": serving a starving readership; title: Teachers and priests: the St. Sergius Theological Academy; title: Sustaining an Orthodox commonwealth.