Orthodox Sisters : Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

Focusing on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross and the other convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese more generally, this book demonstrates how, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Russian Orthodox women built a new type of monastic community that transformed and helped to revitalize Russian Orthodox monasticism after its sharp contraction due to the state reforms of the eighteenth century--

• | Author: William G. Wagner
• | Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501775723
• | ISBN-13: 9781501775727