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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

Randall A Poole editor George Pattison editor Caryl Emerson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:4th Sep '20

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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas. After setting the historical background and context, the Handbook follows the leading figures and movements in modern Russian religious thought through a period of immense historical upheavals, including seventy years of officially atheist communist rule and the growth of an exiled diaspora with, e.g., its journal The Way. Therefore the shape of Russian religious thought cannot be separated from long-running debates with nihilism and atheism. Important thinkers such as Losev and Bakhtin had to guard their words in an environment of religious persecution, whilst some views were shaped by prison experiences. Before the Soviet period, Russian national identity was closely linked with religion - linkages which again are being forged in the new Russia. Relevant in this connection are complex relationships with Judaism. In addition to religious thinkers such as Philaret, Chaadaev, Khomiakov, Kireevsky, Soloviev, Florensky, Bulgakov, Berdyaev, Shestov, Frank, Karsavin, and Alexander Men, the Handbook also looks at the role of religion in aesthetics, music, poetry, art, film, and the novelists Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Ideas, institutions, and movements discussed include the Church academies, Slavophilism and Westernism, theosis, the name-glorifying (imiaslavie) controversy, the God-seekers and God-builders, Russian religious idealism and liberalism, and the Neopatristic school. Occultism is considered, as is the role of tradition and the influence of Russian religious thought in the West.

...extensive and ground-breaking... * Kåre Johan Mjør, Studies in East European Thought *
The editors and authors have made an enormous contribution to the field, for which all scholars of Russia ought to be grateful. * Francesca Silano, Houghton University, United States, Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies *
This massive tome examines in great detail the various traditions and currents of Russian religious thought since Grand Prince Vladimir,...This handbook will definitely challenge more than one reader. * J-Guy Lalande, Studies in Religion *
An important collection of essays, which will be of interest not only to scholars of Russia but to those interested in the encounter between religion and 'modernity' in general. It will make an exciting addition to undergraduate and graduate reading lists on the culture or history of Russia's 'Silver Age'. * Thomas Marsden, Journal Of Ecclesiastical History *

ISBN: 9780198796442

Dimensions: 249mm x 180mm x 48mm

Weight: 1484g

742 pages