The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198796442
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/04/2020
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 742
Product dimensions: 9.80(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, George Pattison, Professor of Theology and Modern European Thought, University of Glasgow,Randall A. Poole, Professor of History, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota,

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Her scholarship has focused on the Russian classics (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian opera and theatre, and the metaphysical ground of the humanities. Recent projects include the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), the allegorical-historical novelist Vladimir Sharov (1952-2018), and the neoThomist aesthetics of Jacques Maritain.

George Pattison is an Anglican priest and has held posts in Cambridge (1991-2001), Aarhus (2002-3), Oxford (2004-13) and Glasgow (2013-) universities. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in the field of modern theology and philosophy of religion, including co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard and The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought. He is currently writing a three part philosophy of Christian life, Part 1, A Phenomenology of the Devout Life was published in 2018 and Part 2, A Rhetorics of the Word, in 2019.


Randall A. Poole is Professor of History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He is also a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Fellow of the International Center for the Study of Russian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2003); co-editor (with G. M. Hamburg) of A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2013); co-editor (with Paul W. Werth) of Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018); and author of numerous articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD, Metropolitan Hilarion Of VolokalamskINTRODUCTIONPART I HISTORICAL CONTEXTS1. Christianity in Rus' and Muscovy, David Goldfrank2. The Orthodox Church and Religious Life in Imperial Russia, Nadieszda Kizenko3. The Orthodox Church and Religion in Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1924, Vera Shevzov4. Russian Religious Life in the Soviet Era, Zoe KnoxPART II THE NINETEENTH CENTURY5. The Theological-Aesthetic Vision of Metropolitan Filaret, Oleg V. Bychkov6. Russian Orthodox Thought in the Church's Clerical Academies, Patrick Lally Michelson7. Petr Chaadaev and the Slavophile-Westernizer Debate, G. M. Hamburg8. Slavophilism and the Origins of Russian Religious Philosophy, Randall A. Poole9. Nihilism, Victoria Frede10. Dostoevsky, George Pattison11. Tolstoy, Caryl Emerson12. Vladimir Soloviev as a Religious Philosopher, Catherine EvtuhovPART III THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL RENAISSANCE, 1900-192213. God-seeking, God-building, and the New Religious Consciousness, Erich Lippman14. Theosis in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Religious Thought, Ruth Coates15. The Liberalism of Russian Religious Idealism, Randall A. Poole16. Sergei Bulgakov's Intellectual Journey, 1900-1922, Regula M. Zwahlen17. Pavel Florensky: At the Boundary of Immanence and Transcendence, Christoph Schneider18. The Personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev, Ana Siljak19. The Name-Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy, Scott M. Kenworthy20. Judaism and Russian Religious Thought, Dominic RubinPART IV ART IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT21. Russian Religious Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Victor V. Bychkov22. 'Musical Metaphysics' in Late Imperial Russia, Rebecca Mitchell23. Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry, Martha M. F. Kelly24. The Icon and Visual Arts at the Time of the Russian Religious Renaissance, Clemena AntonovaPART V RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ABROAD25. The Way, The Journal of the Russian Emigration (1925-1940), Antoine Arjakovsky26. Berdyaev and Christian Existentialism, George Pattison27. Lev Shestov: The Meaning of Life and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge, Ramona Fotiade28. Sergius Bulgakov in Exile: The Flowering of a Systematic Theologian, Fr. Robert F. Slesinski29. Semyon Frank, Philip Boobbyer30. Lev Karsavin, Martin Beisswenger31. Varieties of Neopatristics: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and Alexander Schmemann, Paul L. Gavrilyuk32. 'The Work': The Teachings of G. I. Gurdieff and P. D. Ouspensky in Russia and Beyond, Steven J. Sutcliffe And John P. WilmettPART VI RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN SOVIET RUSSIA33. Alexei Losev: 'The Last Russian Philosopher' of the Silver Age, Sr. Theresa Obolevitch34. Religious Thought and Experience in the Prison Camps, Andrea Gulotta35. Seeking God and Spiritual Salvation in Russian Cinema, Alina Birzache36. Mikhail Bakhtin, Caryl Emerson37. Alexander Men and Russian Religious Thought in the Post-Soviet Situation, Katerina Kocandrle Bauer And Tim NoblePART VII ASSESSMENTS38. Tradition in the Russian Theological World, Rowan Williams39. The Influence of Russian Religious Thought on Western Theology in the Twentieth Century, Paul Valliere40. The Tradition of Christian Thought in the History of Russian Culture, Igor I. Evlampiev
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