Renaissance Influences and Religious Reforms in Russia

Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance 9780226922850

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically a

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Religious resurgence in British India : Vivekananda and the Hindu Renaissance

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Russia Marches South: Army Reforms and Battlefield Performance in Russia’s Southern Campaigns 1695-1739 Doctoral Thesis

Doctoral Thesis

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The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia 9781317454885, 1563240475, 1563240483, 9781563240485, 9781563240478

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Economic Reforms and Development in China : Economic Reforms and Development in China, Volume 2 9789814298315, 9789814298308

From the inside perspective of a highly regarded Chinese scholar and statesman, this thorough study examines financial r

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The Old Believers in Imperial Russia: Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow 9781350988989, 9781838609542

Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Psk

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Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia 9780823299522

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignmen

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The Old Believers in Imperial Russia: Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow 1838609539, 9781838609535

'Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei

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Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe 3039119214, 9783039119219

The collapse of communism has opened up Russia and East-Central Europe to outside influences and enabled new lifestyle c

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On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus 9780755609321, 9781784539184

This book examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian Orthodox Russian imperial rule and the attempts of t

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