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PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN-101501775723
ISBN-139781501775727
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Book TitleOrthodox Sisters : Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Number of Pages434 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicChristianity / Denominations, Christianity / Orthodox
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion
AuthorWilliam G. Wagner
Book SeriesNiu Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight32.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-035977
ReviewsWagner's work should be standard reading for scholars and students of religion in imperial and early Soviet Russia, of women and religion in modern Europe more generally, and for those interested in everyday life in "the provinces." What a tragedy that he did not live to hold the finished book in his hands.
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Monasticism,Modernity, and Women 1. Origins 2. Transformations 3. Religious Life, Community, andCultural Meanings 4. Post-emancipation Transformationand Growth 5. Upholding Orthodoxy in TroubledTimes 6. Revolution and Dissolution Conclusion: Female Monasticism, Empowerment, and Adaptation Epilogue: Resurrection
SynopsisOrthodox Sisters explores the relationship between women, religion, and social, cultural, and economic change between 1700 and 1935 through the experiences of Orthodox convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese. Focusing primarily on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, William G. Wagner places the women's experiences in the broader context of developments in female monasticism and religious life in Russia, as well as in Europe and North America over the same period. This is the first comprehensive study that follows a Russian convent through all the stages of its life?from its origins in the eighteenth century to its flourishing at the turn of the twentieth century, to its resistance to Soviet assault, and, finally, to its rebirth in the 1920s. By the late nineteenth century, the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross and the other convents and women's religious communities in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese constituted a reimagined form of a traditional Orthodox monastic community. Wagner shows how these nuns and novices adapted to the conditions of emergent modernity in a distinctively Orthodox way. When almost everything but their communal life, work, and worship and their sacred spaces had been stripped away and they were subject to the socialist state's efforts at subversion, the sisters of the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross and the other convents in the diocese created an authentic Christian community that gave their lives a collective meaning. In this way they were able to lead a rewarding life and survive the early years of Soviet Russia., Orthodox Sisters explores the relationship between women, religion, and social, cultural, and economic change between 1700 and 1935 through the experiences of Orthodox convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese. Focusing primarily on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, William G. Wagner places the women's experiences in the broader context of developments in female monasticism and religious life in Russia, as well as in Europe and North America over the same period. This is the first comprehensive study that follows a Russian convent through all the stages of its life--from its origins in the eighteenth century to its flourishing at the turn of the twentieth century, to its resistance to Soviet assault, and, finally, to its rebirth in the 1920s. By the late nineteenth century, the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross and the other convents and women's religious communities in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese constituted a reimagined form of a traditional Orthodox monastic community. Wagner shows how these nuns and novices adapted to the conditions of emergent modernity in a distinctively Orthodox way. When almost everything but their communal life, work, and worship and their sacred spaces had been stripped away and they were subject to the socialist state's efforts at subversion, the sisters of the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross and the other convents in the diocese created an authentic Christian community that gave their lives a collective meaning. In this way they were able to lead a rewarding life and survive the early years of Soviet Russia.
LC Classification NumberBX581.W34 2024
