At the Margins of Orthodoxy

by Werth, Paul W.

• ISBN13: 9780801438400
• ISBN10: 0801438403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various faiths? Did the nature of tsarist rule change over time, and did it vary from region to region? Paul W. Werth considers these large questions in his survey of imperial Russian rule in the vast Volga-Kama region.

Author Biography

Paul W. Werth is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Historical and Cultural Contexts	p. 17
Orthodoxy Challenged	p. 44
Mission and Baptism	p. 74
The Limits of Missionary Intervention	p. 96
Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith	p. 124
The Great Apostasy of 1866	p. 147
New Discoveries: Islam and Its Containment	p. 177
The Mari Religious Movement and Non-Russian Monasticism	p. 200
From Missionary Reform to "freedom of Conscience"	p. 223
Conclusion	p. 255
Selected Bibliography	p. 264
Index	p. 271
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