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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

Online ISBN:
9780191837722
Print ISBN:
9780198796442
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

Caryl Emerson (ed.),
Caryl Emerson
(ed.)
Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
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Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, USA. 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 neo-Thomist aesthetics of Jacques Maritain.

George Pattison (ed.),
George Pattison
(ed.)
Theology, University of Glasgow
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George Pattison recently retired as Professor of Theology and Modern European Thought at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively in the areas of theology and philosophy of religion, with particular emphasis on the history of existentialist thought. His recent books include A Phenomenology of the Devout Life (Oxford University Press, 2018) and A Rhetorics of the Word (Oxford University Press, 2019), being the first two parts of a trilogy on the philosophy of Christian life. With Kate Kirkpatrick he co-wrote The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought (Routledge, 2018). He has co-edited two previous Oxford Handbooks—The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Randall A. Poole (ed.)
Randall A. Poole
(ed.)
History and Politics, The College of St. Scholastica
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Randall A. Poole is Professor of History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He is 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 has translated and edited Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2003); co-edited (with G. M. Hamburg) A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2013); and co-edited (with Paul W. Werth) Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). He has also written thirty articles and book chapters.

Published online:
2 September 2020
Published in print:
4 September 2020
Online ISBN:
9780191837722
Print ISBN:
9780198796442
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract

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. The collection includes two responses from contemporary Russian academic and Church life.

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