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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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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