Christianizing Crimea - Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond

Klappentext Analyzes the development of Orthodox Christianity in Crimea. Provides a case study of religious nationalism in Eastern Europe and explores strategies of Church expansion, the importance of Byzantine history and the Greeks, assimilation of pagan and Tatar traditions, the crafting of Russian identity through print media, and Christianizing in post-Soviet Crimea. Zusammenfassung An English language work to analyze the Christian renewal in Crimea. Drawing on archives in Odessa! Simferopol! and St Petersburg! it provides both a case study of past and present religious nationalism in Eastern Europe and an examination of the political conflicts and compromises endemic to holy places.

Product details

• Authors: Mara Kozelsky
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2009
• EAN: 9780875804125
• ISBN: 978-0-87580-412-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Niu Slavic, East European, and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History