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Holy Fathers, Secular Sons

Name: Holy Fathers, Secular Sons
Brand: Northern Illinois University Press
SKU: 9780875806655
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Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia

Szerző: Laurie Manchester

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Northern Illinois University Press

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"Holy Fathers, Secular Sons" is the first study of the Orthodox clergy's contribution to Russian soc...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Laurie Manchester

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

302

EAN

9780875806655

ISBN

0875806651

Enbook ID

04750378

Kiadó

Northern Illinois University Press

Súly

477

Méretek

152 x 229 x 15

Teljes leírás

"Holy Fathers, Secular Sons" is the first study of the Orthodox clergy's contribution to Russian society. Prior to the 1860s, clergymen's sons were not allowed to leave the castelike clergy in large numbers. When permission was granted, they responded by entering free professions and political movements in droves. Challenging the standard view of educated pre-revolutionary Russians as largely westernized, secular, and patricidal, Laurie Manchester demonstrates that the clergymen's sons did retain their fathers' values. This was true even of the minority who became atheists. Drawing on the clergy's commitment to moral activism, anti-aristocratism, and nationalism, clergymen's sons believed they could, and should, save Russia. The consequence was a cultural revolution that helped pave the way for the 1917 revolutions. Using a massive array of previously untapped archival and published sources--including lively first-hand autobiographical writings of over two hundred clergymen's sons--Manchester constructs a composite biography of their childhoods, educations, and adult lives. In a highly original approach, she explores how they employed the image of the clerical family to structure their political, professional, and personal lives. Manchester's work provides a window into an extremely significant but little-known world of Russian educated culture while contributing to histories of lived religion, private life, and memory, as well as to debates over secularization, modernity, and revolution. "Holy Fathers, Secular Sons" powerfully challenges the assumptions that radical change cannot be inspired by tradition and that the modern age is inherently secular.