Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Ana Siljak is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida. Her research and publications focus on Russian philosophy and religious thought. She is completing a book on the personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev and a translation of the correspondence between Nikolai Berdiaev and Jacques Maritain.
Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism is a multifaceted account of the engagement between religion and the secular in Russia's Christian, Jewish, and atheist traditions. Ana Siljak brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to present unique perspectives on the secularization dynamic in Russia and the Soviet Union, telling stories about theologians, sects, churches, poets, and artists.
From the Jewish Christian priest Alexander Men, to the cross-dressing poet Zinaida Gippius, to the Soviet promoter of Yiddish theater Solomon Mikhoels, Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism gives a voice to a variety of actors who have grappled with the possibilities of faith and unbelief in an industrialized, modern, and seemingly secular world. Now more than ever, as one narrative of Russia's religious history dominates official Russian accounts, alternative perspectives of the relationship between Russian religion and secularism should be highlighted and emphasized.
Introduction. Religion and Secularism in Russia:: A Tradition of Engagement
1. Confession and Modernity in Imperial Russia
2. Church and State vs. Church and People: The Two Social Orders of the Orthodox Church
3. Russian Religious Thought and the Christian Justification of the Nation
4. "Dark" Intellectuals:: Engaging with Modernity through Kruzhok Culture
5. Father Alexander Men' and Jewish-Christian Identities under Soviet Secularism
6. Zinaida Gippius and "Christian Infatuation"
7. Disbelief and Piety:: The Irony of Maxim Gorky's Secular Religion
8. The Dazzling Darkness of Black Square
9. Magnitogorsk as Jerusalem:: Bolshevik Revolution and Jewish Messianism
10. "Holy Russia" and British Conservatism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
11. Power, Freedom, and Modernity:: Spiritual Christian Molokans in Russia and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
12. Vseedinstvo:: A Russian Project of Religious Modernity
Afterword:: Russian Religious Modernity
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Ana Siljak is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida. Her research and publications focus on Russian philosophy and religious thought. She is completing a book on the personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev and a translation of the correspondence between Nikolai Berdiaev and Jacques Maritain.