Of Religion and Empire
Subtitle: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia
Contributors: Robert Geraci (Editor); Michael Khodarkovsky (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801433276
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Orthodox Churches; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History: World; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History - General History; Russia; Religion; Church history; Church and state; History; Religion and state
First sentence: Archbishop Afanasii Liubimov was one of the most powerful bishops of the late Muscovite period to promote the cause of Orthodox Christianity among his contemporaries.