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TSARS FOREIGN FAITHS IBD

WERTH
ACADEMIC
04 / 2016
9780198786610
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Sinopsis

The 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 âÇÖreligious tolerationâÇÖ a core attribute of the stateâÇÖs identity.áThe TsarâÇÖs Foreign Faithsáshows that the resulting tensions between the autocracyâÇÖs commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empireâÇÖs religious order.In this panoramic account, Paul W. Werth explores the scope and character of religious freedom for RussiaâÇÖs 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 empireâÇÖs governance. He reveals the paradoxical status of RussiaâÇÖs heterodox faiths as both established and âÇÖforeignâÇÖ, 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 statesmenâÇÖs nationalist sentiments and their fears of âÇÖpoliticizedâÇÖ religion impeded this development. RussiaâÇÖs 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,áThe TsarâÇÖs Foreign Faithsárepresents a major contribution to the history of empire and religion in Russia, and to the study of toleration and religious diversity in Europe.

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