Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198796442
Number of Pages: 742
Published: 04/09/2020
Width: 18 cm
Height: 24.9 cm
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.
FOREWORDMetropolitan Hilarion Of Volokalamsk:
INTRODUCTION
PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
1: David Goldfrank: Christianity in Rus' and Muscovy
2: Nadieszda Kizenko: The Orthodox Church and Religious Life in Imperial Russia
3: Vera Shevzov: The Orthodox Church and Religion in Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1924
4: Zoe Knox: Russian Religious Life in the Soviet Era
PART II THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
5: Oleg V. Bychkov: The Theological-Aesthetic Vision of Metropolitan Filaret
6: Patrick Lally Michelson: Russian Orthodox Thought in the Church's Clerical Academies
7: G. M. Hamburg: Petr Chaadaev and the Slavophile-Westernizer Debate
8: Randall A. Poole: Slavophilism and the Origins of Russian Religious Philosophy
9: Victoria Frede: Nihilism
10: George Pattison: Dostoevsky
11: Caryl Emerson: Tolstoy
12: Catherine Evtuhov: Vladimir Soloviev as a Religious Philosopher
PART III THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL RENAISSANCE, 1900-1922
13: Erich Lippman: God-seeking, God-building, and the New Religious Consciousness
14: Ruth Coates: Theosis in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Religious Thought
15: Randall A. Poole: The Liberalism of Russian Religious Idealism
16: Regula M. Zwahlen: Sergei Bulgakov's Intellectual Journey, 1900-1922
17: Christoph Schneider: Pavel Florensky: At the Boundary of Immanence and Transcendence
18: Ana Siljak: The Personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev
19: Scott M. Kenworthy: The Name-Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy
20: Dominic Rubin: Judaism and Russian Religious Thought
PART IV ART IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
21: Victor V. Bychkov: Russian Religious Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
22: Rebecca Mitchell: 'Musical Metaphysics' in Late Imperial Russia
23: Martha M. F. Kelly: Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry
24: Clemena Antonova: The Icon and Visual Arts at the Time of the Russian Religious Renaissance
PART V RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ABROAD
25: Antoine Arjakovsky: The Way, The Journal of the Russian Emigration (1925-1940)
26: George Pattison: Berdyaev and Christian Existentialism
27: Ramona Fotiade: Lev Shestov: The Meaning of Life and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge
28: Fr. Robert F. Slesinski: Sergius Bulgakov in Exile: The Flowering of a Systematic Theologian
29: Philip Boobbyer: Semyon Frank
30: Martin Beisswenger: Lev Karsavin
31: Paul L. Gavrilyuk: Varieties of Neopatristics: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and Alexander Schmemann
32: Steven J. Sutcliffe And John P. Wilmett: 'The Work': The Teachings of G. I. Gurdieff and P. D. Ouspensky in Russia and Beyond
PART VI RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN SOVIET RUSSIA
33: Sr. Theresa Obolevitch: Alexei Losev: 'The Last Russian Philosopher' of the Silver Age
34: Andrea Gulotta: Religious Thought and Experience in the Prison Camps
35: Alina Birzache: Seeking God and Spiritual Salvation in Russian Cinema
36: Caryl Emerson: Mikhail Bakhtin
37: Katerina Kocandrle Bauer And Tim Noble: Alexander Men and Russian Religious Thought in the Post-Soviet Situation
PART VII ASSESSMENTS
38: Rowan Williams: Tradition in the Russian Theological World
39: Paul Valliere: The Influence of Russian Religious Thought on Western Theology in the Twentieth Century
40: Igor I. Evlampiev: The Tradition of Christian Thought in the History of Russian Culture
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