The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

by Emerson, Caryl; Pattison, George; Poole, Randall A.

• ISBN13: 9780198796442
• ISBN10: 0198796447
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-11-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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, Princeton University, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus

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.


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.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD Metropolitan Hilarion Of Volokalamsk
INTRODUCTION
PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
1. Christianity in Rus' and Muscovy, David Goldfrank
2. The Orthodox Church and Religious Life in Imperial Russia, Nadieszda Kizenko
3. The Orthodox Church and Religion in Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1924, Vera Shevzov
4. Russian Religious Life in the Soviet Era, Zoe Knox
PART II THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
5. The Theological-Aesthetic Vision of Metropolitan Filaret, Oleg V. Bychkov
6. Russian Orthodox Thought in the Church's Clerical Academies, Patrick Lally Michelson
7. Petr Chaadaev and the Slavophile-Westernizer Debate, G. M. Hamburg
8. Slavophilism and the Origins of Russian Religious Philosophy, Randall A. Poole
9. Nihilism, Victoria Frede
10. Dostoevsky, George Pattison
11. Tolstoy, Caryl Emerson
12. Vladimir Soloviev as a Religious Philosopher, Catherine Evtuhov
PART III THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL RENAISSANCE, 1900-1922
13. God-seeking, God-building, and the New Religious Consciousness, Erich Lippman
14. Theosis in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Religious Thought, Ruth Coates
15. The Liberalism of Russian Religious Idealism, Randall A. Poole
16. Sergei Bulgakov's Intellectual Journey, 1900-1922, Regula M. Zwahlen
17. Pavel Florensky: At the Boundary of Immanence and Transcendence, Christoph Schneider
18. The Personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev, Ana Siljak
19. The Name-Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy, Scott M. Kenworthy
20. Judaism and Russian Religious Thought, Dominic Rubin
PART IV ART IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
21. Russian Religious Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Victor V. Bychkov
22. 'Musical Metaphysics' in Late Imperial Russia, Rebecca Mitchell
23. Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry, Martha M. F. Kelly
24. The Icon and Visual Arts at the Time of the Russian Religious Renaissance, Clemena Antonova
PART V RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ABROAD
25. The Way, The Journal of the Russian Emigration (1925-1940), Antoine Arjakovsky
26. Berdyaev and Christian Existentialism, George Pattison
27. Lev Shestov: The Meaning of Life and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge, Ramona Fotiade
28. Sergius Bulgakov in Exile: The Flowering of a Systematic Theologian, Fr. Robert F. Slesinski
29. Semyon Frank, Philip Boobbyer
30. Lev Karsavin, Martin Beisswenger
31. Varieties of Neopatristics: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and Alexander Schmemann, Paul L. Gavrilyuk
32. 'The Work': The Teachings of G. I. Gurdieff and P. D. Ouspensky in Russia and Beyond, Steven J. Sutcliffe And John P. Wilmett
PART VI RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN SOVIET RUSSIA
33. Alexei Losev: 'The Last Russian Philosopher' of the Silver Age, Sr. Theresa Obolevitch
34. Religious Thought and Experience in the Prison Camps, Andrea Gulotta
35. Seeking God and Spiritual Salvation in Russian Cinema, Alina Birzache
36. Mikhail Bakhtin, Caryl Emerson
37. Alexander Men and Russian Religious Thought in the Post-Soviet Situation, Katerina Kocandrle Bauer And Tim Noble
PART VII ASSESSMENTS
38. Tradition in the Russian Theological World, Rowan Williams
39. The Influence of Russian Religious Thought on Western Theology in the Twentieth Century, Paul Valliere
40. The Tradition of Christian Thought in the History of Russian Culture, Igor I. Evlampiev