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Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia

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Description for Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia Paperback. Explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid-to late-eighteenth century. Grounded in close readings of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon Levshin, court preacher and metropolitan bishop of Moscow, this book examines the blending of European thought into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.

This valuable study explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid to late eighteenth century. Grounded in close reading of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon (Levshin), Court preacher and Metropolitan of Moscow, the book examines the blending of European ideas into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy. Highlighting the interplay between Enlightenment thought and Orthodox enlightenment, Elise Wirtschafter addresses key questions of concern to religious Enlighteners across Europe: humanity's relationship to God and creation, the distinction between learning and enlightenment, the role of Christian love in authority relationships, the meaning of free will in ... Read more

Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia defines the Russian Enlightenment as a response to the allure of European modernity, as an instrument of social control, and as the moral voice of an emergent independent society. Because Russia's enlightened intellectuals focused on the moral perfectibility of the individual human being, rather than social and political change, the originality of the Russian Enlightenment has gone unrecognized. This study corrects images of a superficial Enlightenment and crisis-ridden religious culture, arguing that in order to understand the humanistic sensibility and emphasis on individual dignity that permeate Russian intellectual history, and the history of the educated classes more broadly, it is necessary to bring Orthodox teachings into the discussion of Enlightenment thought. The result is a book that explains the distinctive origins of modern Russian culture while also allowing scholars to situate the Russian Enlightenment in European and global history.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875806983
SKU
V9780875806983
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About Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter is Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her most recent publications include Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 and The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater.

Reviews for Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia
Wirtschafter offers a detailed and engaging exposition of Platon's sermons.
Times Literary Supplement
A fine achievement that deserves attention from non-Russianists.
European History Quarterly
Wirtschafter provides a fascinating, well-researched, persuasively argued case study though a close reading of the sermons of one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most important clerics, Metropolitan Platon.
The Journal of ... Read more

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