ORTHODOXY
AND DIFFERENCE
Essays on the Geography of Russian Orthodox Church(es)
in the 20th Century
Princeton
Theological Monograph Series 46 (San Jose, CA: Pickwick Publications)
CONTENTS
1. THE MEANING OF SPACE IN THE STUDY OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY
Introduction: The Diversity of Russian Orthodoxy
Studies of the Russian Church in the 20th Century: a Soviet
Administrative Vision of Space?
Geographical Studies of Religion: A-Political Space?
The Church, the State, and Society: The Difference that
Scale Makes
2. “AUTOCRACY, ORTHODOXY, NATIONALITY”: THE MATCH IN MAKING
The Church, the State and Society in Pre-Modern Russia: Spatial
History
The “Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality” Match in Late Imperial
Russia
Orthodox Differentiation in Late Imperial Russia: the Old
Belief
3. “LIBERATION
OF CHRIST FROM THE NATIONAL EMBRACE”:
RENOVATIONISM AS A MOVEMENT
Documenting and Mapping Renovationism
Renovationism as a Spatial Movement
Clergy and Wealth: The Geography of Parish Income before
and after 1917
4. PLAYING CHESS WITH CHURCHES: RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY AS RE(LI)GION
Church Property Before 1917 and Russian Imperialism
The Soviet Politics of Church Property Transfers
Legacies of the Soviet Re(li)gion
5. POST-IMPERIAL
SPACES:
THE
RUSSIAN CHURCH AS THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE
The End of Communism and the Quest for the Return of Church
Property
The Estonian Conflict: An Orthodox “Cold War?”
The Collapse of the Iron Curtain and the Returns of Church
Property in Russia
6. LOCAL “IRON CURTAINS” IN A WORLD CITY: THE CASE OF MOSCOW
Property Return and the Center-Periphery Discrepancy
New Church Construction
Exclusion of Alternative Orthodox Communities
7. NATIONAL MONUMENTALIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF SCALE: THE RE-SURRECTION(S) OF THE CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR IN MOSCOW
Geographical Study of Religious/National Monuments
The Original Cathedral
The Resurrected Cathedral
8. CONCLUSION
References
Supplement
Index
SAMPLE PAGES in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format