Ritual, History, and Ethics in Romania's Old Belief
In the Danube delta between Romania and Ukraine, a shrinking community of Russian Old Believers - Orthodox Christians whose rejection of seventeenth-century religious reforms eventually drove many of them out of tsarist Russia - has struggled for survival, withdrawn from the world while simultaneously trying to engage with it. Waves of social ......
Ritual, History, and Ethics in Romania's Old Belief
In the Danube delta between Romania and Ukraine, a shrinking community of Russian Old Believers-Orthodox Christians whose rejection of seventeenth-century religious reforms eventually drove many of them out of tsarist Russia - has struggled for survival, withdrawn from the world while simultaneously trying to engage with it. Waves of social ......
Seven Romanian Greek Catholic Bishops Under Communism
Veteran authors Francisca Baltaceanu and Monica Brosteanu render extensive archival research into a readable, stand-alone volume about seven key figures in the outlawed Romanian Greek Catholic Church. Prefaced by the Greek Catholic bishop of Bucharest, the book synthesizes indispensable background information for reading the story of these ......
This volume comprises supplemental source material to accompany courses in the history of Russian Orthodox music course. It is meant as a study aid for students and contains valuable reference sources for students and practitioners alike.
A Witness of the Silent Church is a first-hand personal witness to the life of one of the outstanding religious leaders in the Catholic Church and the confessor of faith. It presents the autobiography of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj (1892-1984), who served as a head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the period of the Soviet regime (1944-1984) and ......
Hagiography As Resistance in the Modern Mediterranean
A compelling investigation of how representations of Orthodox Christian saints serve as means of resistance amid cultural and political domination On the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, repeatedly conquered and colonized, Orthodox Christians have long struggled for political self-determination, agricultural sustainability, and spiritual ......
Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians. Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and Catholics in the Global South. The contemporary scholarly interest in such communities descends from histories of missionization and ......
Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians. Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and Catholics in the Global South. The contemporary scholarly interest in such communities descends from histories of missionization and ......
Russian Modernist Criticism and the Making of Dostoevsky, 1881-1917
Reading Faithfully reveals how Russian critics of the Silver Age (the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) reread and remade Fyodor Dostoevsky for their era of religious renewal amid a broader political embrace of liberal reform and radical politics. Lindsay Ceballos argues that most Silver Age critics engaged in a mode of critique ......
