Overview
Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture.
- | Author: Brian P. Bennett
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 200 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0415780632
- | ISBN-13: 9780415780636
