The tsar's foreign faiths: toleration and the fate of religious freedom in Imperial Russia
"The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making "religious toleration" a core attrib...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in modern European history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Russia
/ Religious freedom
/ Religion
/ History 1772-1914
B Russia / State / Religious freedom / Religious policy / Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / History 1700-1917 |
| Further subjects: | B
Church and state (Russia)
History
B Freedom Of Religion (Russia) B Russia Church history B Religion and state (Russia) |
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| Summary: | "The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making "religious toleration" a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths show that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order."-- "The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making "religious toleration" a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths show that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order."-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 0199591776 |