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Summary:

The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia's church and society in the eighteenth century. Though the traditional Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, Andrey V. Ivanov's study argues that the institution in fact embraced many Western ideas, thereby undergoing what some observers called a religious revolution. Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought influenced the Russian Church. These new ideas played a foundational role in the emergence of the country as a modernizing empire and the rise of the Church hierarchy as a forward-looking agency of institutional and societal change. Ivanov addresses this important debate in the scholarship on European history, firmly placing Orthodoxy within the much wider European and global continuum of religious change.

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Transliteration
• Introduction: Russia's Century of Reform and Enlightenment
• Part I. Orthodox Russia Reformed
• 1. Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of the Reforms: The Ukrainian Context, 1654-1712
• 2. Escape from Rome: The Peregrinations of Feofan Prokopovich, 1696-1704
• 3. A Russian Luther: Feofan in St. Petersburg, 1716-1725
• 4. A Struggle for Orthodoxy: Saving Russia from "Papist Tyranny," 1725-1736
• Part II. Orthodox Russia Enlightened
• 5. "The Fledglings of the Petrine Nest": Early Enlightenment and the Continuities of Reform, 1736-1765
• 6. Enlightening the Church: Faith and Culture in the Age of Reason, 1762-1801
• 7. Light from the Pulpit: Preaching Reason to Russia's Masses, 1754-1801
• 8. Spiritual Napoleons: Awakened Bishops and the Bureaucratic Reaction, 1801-1824
• Conclusion: Protasov's Apocalypse, 1836
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography

• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Ivanov, Andrey V. (Andrey Vyacheslavovich) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A spiritual revolution: the impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia [by Ivanov, A.V.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Spiritual revolution [by Ivanov, A.V.] (Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020] — ISBN 9780299327903; LCCN 2020004181; OCLC Number 1149310578)

Subjects:

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ — History — 19th century

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ — History — 18th century

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ

Enlightenment — Russia

Russia — Church history — 1801-1917

Russia — Church history — 18th century

Enlightenment

Russia

1700-1917

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-345) and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 11, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages) : illustrations

Call Numbers:

BR935 .I936 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780299327934
0299327930
9780299327903 (hardcover) [Invalid]
0299327906 (hardcover) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1202475871