The Tsar's Foreign Faiths
Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 April 2016
- ISBN 9780198786610
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 234x156x16 mm
- Weight 434 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white maps 0
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Short description:
Explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions during the tzarist regime.
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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 'religious toleration' a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths shows that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order.
In this panoramic account, Paul W. Werth explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's 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 empire's governance. He reveals the paradoxical status of Russia's heterodox faiths as both established and 'foreign', 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 statesmen's nationalist sentiments and their fears of 'politicized' religion impeded this development. Russia's 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, The Tsar's Foreign Faiths represents a major contribution to the history of empire and religion in Russia, and to the study of toleration and religious diversity in Europe.
Those teaching the history of Imperial Russia at university level would be well served by adding this work to their syllabus. Far from being a straightforward history of religion, Werth offers up a highly stimulating study that reveals a great deal about the Russian state's broad attitude towards toleration and freedom of conscience. More generally, anyone interested in the complex practices of imperial rule in Russia, beset as it was by tensions and contradictions, will gain many insights by reading The Tsar's Foreign Faiths.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Early-Modern Bequests
The Multiconfessional Establishment
Matters of Integrity
The Rhetoric and Content of 'Religious Toleration'
Prospects of Reform
Depoliticizing Piety, Russifying Faith
Towards Expanded Religious Freedom
Freedom of Conscience as Legislative Project
The Foreign Confessions in the Empire's Twilight
Conclusion: Between Toleration and Freedom of Conscience
