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Of Religion and Empire : Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia /

Russia's ever-expanding imperial boundaries encompassed diverse peoples and religions. Yet Russian Orthodoxy remained inseparable from the identity of the Russian empire-state, which at different times launched conversion campaigns not only to "save the souls" of animists and bring de...

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Otros Autores: Clay, J. Eugene (Contribuidor), Geraci, Robert P. (Contribuidor), Geraci, Robert (Editor ), Kan, Sergei (Contribuidor), Kefeli, Agnès (Contribuidor), Keller, Shoshana (Contribuidor), Khodarkovsky, Michael (Contribuidor, Editor ), Klier, John D. (Contribuidor), Michels, Georg (Contribuidor), Mostashari, Firouzeh (Contribuidor), Schorkowitz, Dittmar (Contribuidor), Weeks, Theodore R. (Contribuidor), Werth, Paul W. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. The Western Regions: Christians and Jews
  • Chapter One. Rescuing the Orthodox: The Church Policies of Archbishop Afanasii of Kholmogory, 1682-1702
  • Chapter Two. Orthodox Missionaries and "Orthodox Heretics" in Russia, 1886-1917
  • Chapter Three. Between Rome and Tsargrad: The Uniate Church in Imperial Russia
  • Chapter Four. State Policies and the Conversion of Jews in Imperial Russia
  • II. Converting Animists and Buddhists
  • Chapter Five. The Conversion of Non-Christians in Early Modern Russia
  • Chapter Six. Big Candles and "Internal Conversion": The Mari Animist Reformation and Its Russian Appropriations
  • Chapter Seven. Russian Orthodox Missionaries at Home and Abroad: The Case of Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous Peoples
  • Chapter Eight. The Orthodox Church, Lamaism, and Shamanism among the Buriats and Kalmyks, 1825-1925
  • III. Facing Islam
  • Chapter Nine. Colonial Dilemmas: Russian Policies in the Muslim Caucasus
  • Chapter Ten. The Role of Tatar and Kriashen Women in the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge, 1800-1870
  • Chapter Eleven. Going Abroad or Going to Russia? Orthodox Missionaries in the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917
  • Chapter Twelve. Conversion to the New Faith: Marxism-Leninism and Muslims in the Soviet Empire
  • Conclusion
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index