Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Autor Laurie Manchesteren Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2011
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780875806655
ISBN-10: 0875806651
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 167 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press
Seria NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
ISBN-10: 0875806651
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 167 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press
Seria NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Notă biografică
Laurie Manchester is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. The author is the receipient of the 2009 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences .
Cuprins
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Backdrop: Clerical Life and Representations of Popovichi
Chapter 2: Popovichi and Their Fathers Judge Other Social Estates
Chapter 3: Prescriptive Norms for the Sacred Estate
Chapter 4: Clerical Childhood as Heaven on Earth
Chapter 5: Martyrdom, Moral Superiority, and a Bursa Education
Chapter 6: Holy Exodus: Leaving the Clergy to Impose Clerical Traditions
Chapter 7: The Search for Secular Salvation
Conclusion
Glossary
Data on Identifiable Popovichi’s Personal Texts
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Backdrop: Clerical Life and Representations of Popovichi
Chapter 2: Popovichi and Their Fathers Judge Other Social Estates
Chapter 3: Prescriptive Norms for the Sacred Estate
Chapter 4: Clerical Childhood as Heaven on Earth
Chapter 5: Martyrdom, Moral Superiority, and a Bursa Education
Chapter 6: Holy Exodus: Leaving the Clergy to Impose Clerical Traditions
Chapter 7: The Search for Secular Salvation
Conclusion
Glossary
Data on Identifiable Popovichi’s Personal Texts
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Recenzii
"A thoughtful, well-researched and innovative study."—Slavic Review
"Well researched and vigorously argued. Offer[s] solid reasons to support revisionist arguments."—Times Literary Supplement
“The aim is to challenge the traditional identification of the intelligentsia with Western ideas and, instead, to demonstrate the role of traditional, religious culture in shaping the worldview of these popovichi, the “secular sons” who made careers in the free professions and radical opposition. The argument and evidence are compelling…Without question, this monograph constitutes a major contribution to the literature.”—The Russian Review
“This wide-ranging, original volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the role that Russian Orthodoxy, through priests’ offspring, played in that country’s social and cultural history. It is a model of definitive, exhaustive archival research.”—Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University
“This book is well research and well written, and it belongs in any graduate seminar on modern Russia. Not only has Manchester revitalized the history of the intelligentsia; she has also provided a case study of how religion and theology were fundamental factors in the shaping of modern understandings of selfhood.” –Social History
“The author forces a major reconsideration of the intelligentsia…she draws judiciously on recent theories regarding the formation of memory and the relationship between memory, history and identity, on literary forms and the formation of modern selfhood, on the relationship between religion and modernity, and on the social and cultural construction of gender.”-William G. Wagner, Williams College
“Manchester has made a major contribution to the historiography not only of Russia, but of European modernity. Manchester’s work supplements and corrects the works of earlier cultural historians, such as Reinhard Bendix and Liah Greenfeld, who have tried to discern religion’s role in the rise of modernity.” –Church History
“Her study shows how the specific popovichi mentality was forged and then how it spread to society and influenced the intelligentsia to think of itself as a self-sacrificing, self-conscious, utilitarian, ascetic, morally superior force devoted to popular liberation…she presents a rich, colorful, and well-constructed picture of the popovichi from their childhoods to their adult mission.” -American Historical Review
“the most interesting and significant discussions concern questions of ethos, values, moralities, memory, spirituality, secularity, identity, individuality, and selfhood…it is in exploring an important example of that widespread spirit of moral mission and determination to “save” Russia, and perhaps the world-arrived at along a variety of paths-that Manchester’s book is so valuable.” –Journal of Modern History
“The author’s scholarly apparatus, her extensively documented sources material, and her cultural and sociological analysis offer a coherent and convincing picture of a previously unstudied social class…Her study of the popovichi’s contribution to the Russian intelligentsia, Russia’s revolutionary path, and national identity forges a crucial missing link in Russian culture’s evolutionary chain.” –Slavic and East European Journal
“Manchester makes an important and illuminating point about the origins and character of the Russian intelligentsia, as well as the religious sources of modern identities. The intelligentsia’s ethos came into being not simply as a rejection of Russia’s past and present but rather through a creative reworking of tradition.” –Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
"a thoughtful, well-researched and innovative study…”- Slavic Review“well written, argued, and footnoted, and deserve[s] a place in the canon of primary studies of Russian history.” -Choice
“very thought-provoking, an interpretational and empirical feast that will be enjoyed for some time to come.” –Journal of Ecclesiastical History
“The argument and evidence are compelling…Without question, this monograph constitutes a major contribution to the literature.” –The Russian Review
"Well researched and vigorously argued. Offer[s] solid reasons to support revisionist arguments."—Times Literary Supplement
“The aim is to challenge the traditional identification of the intelligentsia with Western ideas and, instead, to demonstrate the role of traditional, religious culture in shaping the worldview of these popovichi, the “secular sons” who made careers in the free professions and radical opposition. The argument and evidence are compelling…Without question, this monograph constitutes a major contribution to the literature.”—The Russian Review
“This wide-ranging, original volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the role that Russian Orthodoxy, through priests’ offspring, played in that country’s social and cultural history. It is a model of definitive, exhaustive archival research.”—Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University
“This book is well research and well written, and it belongs in any graduate seminar on modern Russia. Not only has Manchester revitalized the history of the intelligentsia; she has also provided a case study of how religion and theology were fundamental factors in the shaping of modern understandings of selfhood.” –Social History
“The author forces a major reconsideration of the intelligentsia…she draws judiciously on recent theories regarding the formation of memory and the relationship between memory, history and identity, on literary forms and the formation of modern selfhood, on the relationship between religion and modernity, and on the social and cultural construction of gender.”-William G. Wagner, Williams College
“Manchester has made a major contribution to the historiography not only of Russia, but of European modernity. Manchester’s work supplements and corrects the works of earlier cultural historians, such as Reinhard Bendix and Liah Greenfeld, who have tried to discern religion’s role in the rise of modernity.” –Church History
“Her study shows how the specific popovichi mentality was forged and then how it spread to society and influenced the intelligentsia to think of itself as a self-sacrificing, self-conscious, utilitarian, ascetic, morally superior force devoted to popular liberation…she presents a rich, colorful, and well-constructed picture of the popovichi from their childhoods to their adult mission.” -American Historical Review
“the most interesting and significant discussions concern questions of ethos, values, moralities, memory, spirituality, secularity, identity, individuality, and selfhood…it is in exploring an important example of that widespread spirit of moral mission and determination to “save” Russia, and perhaps the world-arrived at along a variety of paths-that Manchester’s book is so valuable.” –Journal of Modern History
“The author’s scholarly apparatus, her extensively documented sources material, and her cultural and sociological analysis offer a coherent and convincing picture of a previously unstudied social class…Her study of the popovichi’s contribution to the Russian intelligentsia, Russia’s revolutionary path, and national identity forges a crucial missing link in Russian culture’s evolutionary chain.” –Slavic and East European Journal
“Manchester makes an important and illuminating point about the origins and character of the Russian intelligentsia, as well as the religious sources of modern identities. The intelligentsia’s ethos came into being not simply as a rejection of Russia’s past and present but rather through a creative reworking of tradition.” –Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
"a thoughtful, well-researched and innovative study…”- Slavic Review“well written, argued, and footnoted, and deserve[s] a place in the canon of primary studies of Russian history.” -Choice
“very thought-provoking, an interpretational and empirical feast that will be enjoyed for some time to come.” –Journal of Ecclesiastical History
“The argument and evidence are compelling…Without question, this monograph constitutes a major contribution to the literature.” –The Russian Review
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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.
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.