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Long Walk to Church : A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy by Nathaniel Davis (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100813340705
ISBN-139780813340708
eBay Product ID (ePID)2268314
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
Publication NameLong Walk to Church : a Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
SubjectChristian Church / History, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, History
AuthorNathaniel Davis
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-001236
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal281.9/47/0904
SynopsisMaking use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five years. In 1939, only a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church -- and parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However, after Stalin's death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between 1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More recently, the collapse of communism has created a mixture of dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous events of recent years, including schisms in Ukraine, Estonia, and Moldova, and confrontations between church traditionalists, conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics, Protestant evangelists, and pagans in the south and east, the canonization of the last Czar, the church's financial crisis, and hard data on the slowing Russian orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral leadership now beckon between promise and possibility., Through an examination of historical archives, Nathaniel Davis examines the Russian Orthodox Church's transformation through several extreme political and social regimes.
LC Classification NumberBX492.D38 2003
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