Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929

Informationen zum Autor Heather J. Coleman Klappentext Heather J. Coleman is Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. Zusammenfassung Traces the development of Baptist evangelical communities through a period of rapid industrialization, war, and revolution. This book reveals the ways in which the Baptists' own experiences, and the discussions that they generated, illuminate the emergence of social and personal identities in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Spiritual Revolutions and Soul Wars Part I. Organizing for the Russian Reformation 1. The Damned Shtundist: The Russian Evangelical Movement to 1905 2. The Era of "Open Storm": Baptist Organization and Community after 1905 3. A Community of Converts: Conversion Narratives and Social Experience Part II. The Most Dangerous Sect 4. The Baptist Challenge 5. Russian Baptists and the "German Faith" 6. Dashed Hopes: 1910-1917 Part III. A Spiritual Revolution 7. The Revolution of the Spirit 8. Revolution and Opportunity 9. A Mixed Blessing: Sectarian Pacifism and Political Legitimacy 10. Parallel Lives? Religious Activism and Godless Fears Afterword Glossary and Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Heather J Coleman, Heather J. Coleman, Coleman Heather J
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2005
• EAN: 9780253345721
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34572-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies; Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Russian and E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries