Russian Orthodoxy Under the Old RegimeRobert Lewis Nichols, Theofanis George Stavrou Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this book, which is especially suitable for course use, eleven scholars examine one of the most important institutions of imperial Russia, the Orthodox church in the two centuries before the Russian revolution. The material is arranged in two sections, the first devoted to Orthodoxy's role in Russian social and cultural life and the second dealing with the church's relationship to the tsarist regime. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Russian Orthodoxy and Society | 21 |
Feofan Prokopovich and the Kiev Academy | 44 |
Orthodoxy and Russias Enlightenment 17621825 | 67 |
A Priests Manifesto on the Crisis in Russian | 90 |
Church and State in Imperial Russia | 127 |
The Inquisitorial Network of Peter the Great | 142 |
The System of Nicholas I in ChurchState Relations | 154 |
Russian Bishops and Church Reform in 1905 | 170 |
The Idea of a Council in Russian Orthodoxy in 1905 | 183 |
A Bibliographical Essay on the Documentation of Russian | 205 |
Guide to Further Reading in Western European Languages | 229 |
List of Contributors | 241 |
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