The Tsar's foreign faiths : toleration and the fate of religious freedom in Imperial Russia

Collection:
Sklaidos publikacijos / Dissemination publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Tsar's foreign faiths: toleration and the fate of religious freedom in Imperial Russia
Publication Data:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Pages:
xiv, 288 p
Notes:
Bibliografija ir rodyklė.
Contents:
List of tables — List of maps — List of figures — Abbreviations and citations — Note to the reader — Introduction — Early modern bequests — The multiconfessional establishment — Matters of integrity — The rhetoric and content of “religious toleration” — Prospects of reform — Depoliticizing piety, russifying faith — Towards expanded religious freedom — Freedom of conscience as legislative project — The foreign confessions in the empires twilight — Conclusion: between toleration and freedom of conscience — Select bibliography — Index.
Keywords:
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Socialinės kultūrinės grupės / Sociocultural groups; Religija / Religion.
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LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Rusijos XIX a. istorija; Religija; Tautinės mažumos; Statistika; Russian XIX c. history; Religion; Ethnic monority; Statistics.

ENThe Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration' a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths shows that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order. In this panoramic account, Paul W. Werth explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions, from Lutheranism and Catholicism to Islam and Buddhism. Considering both rhetoric and practice, he examines discourses of religious toleration and the role of confessional institutions in the empire's governance. He reveals the paradoxical status of Russia's heterodox faiths as both established and 'foreign', and explains the dynamics that shaped the fate of newer conceptions of religious liberty after the mid-nineteenth century. If intellectual change and the shifting character of religious life in Russia gradually pushed the regime towards the acceptance of freedom of conscience, then statesmen's nationalist sentiments and their fears of 'politicized' religion impeded this development. Russia's religious order thus remained beset by contradiction on the eve of the Great War. Based on archival research in five countries and a vast scholarly literature, The Tsar's Foreign Faiths represents a major contribution to the history of empire and religion in Russia, and to the study of toleration and religious diversity in Europe. [Amazon.com]

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9780198786610
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