Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Citizens of Paradise -- Christians and the Language of War -- Historical and Theoretical Frameworks for Analyzing the Russo-Japanese War -- The History of the Russo-Japanese War -- Sources an...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Kasatkin, Ivan D. 1836-1912
/ Russo-Japanese War
/ Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
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| IxTheo Classification: | TA History |
| Further subjects: | B
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Religious aspects
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Erscheint auch als: Perabo, Betsy C: Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781474253758 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Citizens of Paradise -- Christians and the Language of War -- Historical and Theoretical Frameworks for Analyzing the Russo-Japanese War -- The History of the Russo-Japanese War -- Sources and Translations -- Dates -- 1 Christianity, Politics, and War: Historical Foundations -- Christianity and Ethical Decision Making -- Political Theology and War: An Intertwined History -- Orthodoxy and Divided Christianity -- The Constantinian Shift: Politics, Mission, and War -- Constantine and Eusebius: The Christian Church and the Christian State -- Priest, Bishop, and Apostle: The Religious Roles of the Emperor -- The Emperor as God's Icon or Representative -- Ecumenical Councils and the Centers of the Church: Unity and Multiplicity -- The Beginning of a Western Tradition: Augustine and the Christian Use of Force -- "The Shortlived Fires of the Furnace": Religious Coercion and Violence -- Justinian and Symphonia -- The Charism of the Emperor and the Future of Church, State, and War in Russia -- 2 Russia as a Christian Nation: Orthodoxy and Empire -- The Origins of Russian Orthodoxy -- The Mission to the Slavs and the Rise of Vladimir, the New Constantine -- Russian Orthodoxy after the Fall of the Ottoman Empire -- Russia's Religious Diversity: The Non-Orthodox Population -- Russian Orthodoxy and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century -- 3 The Bountiful Harvest: The Russian Orthodox Mission in Japan -- The Religious Landscape of Imperial Russia -- The Anti-.Islam and Anti-Buddhist Divisions at Kazan Theological Academy -- Buddhism in Russia: Orthodox Missionary Work among the Buriats and Kalmyks -- The Opening of Japan and the Work of Christian Missions -- The Russian Orthodox Mission in Japan -- Nikolai on the Future of Christianity in Japan. Christianity in Meiji-Era Japan -- Christianity during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) -- Conclusion -- 4 The Christ-Loving Military: War in the Russian Orthodox Tradition -- Service to the Heavenly Fatherland -- Russian Orthodoxy and the Absence of a Just War Tradition -- Distinctive Features of the Justifiable War Tradition in Orthodoxy: Saints and Liturgy -- The Military and the State in the Orthodox Liturgical Tradition -- Three Conversations on War: Solov'ev -- The Christ-Loving Military in the Late Imperial Period: Archbishop Innocent of Kherson -- Conclusion -- 5 The Prewar Era: The Army of God and the Army of the Buddha -- The Legend of the Port Arthur Icon -- The Army of God and the Army of the Buddha -- Civilization and the Spirit of the Crusaders -- 6 The War Begins: Prayers and Patriotism -- "With Unwavering Faith in the Help of the Most High": Russia's Prayers for War -- Religion and Public Support for the War -- Christianity and the War: An Early Analysis -- "Love of Country Is Natural and Holy": Guiding the Church at the Start of the War -- Christian Reporting on Russian Muslims' Support for the War -- 7 Spring 1904: Priests and Battlefields -- The Orthodox in Japan: Suspicion and Sympathy -- The Sovereign and the Church -- Prayers of Russians at Home -- Japan and Civilization -- A Complicated Grief: Easter 1904 and the Death of Admiral Makarov -- The Priest on the Battlefield -- 8 Summer 1904: Religion, War, and the Civilized World -- The Congress of Japanese Religionists -- Russia, Religion, and the International Laws of War -- "To Love One's Enemies ... Means Not to Kill Them": Tolstoy and the War -- The Devastations of the War and the Anger of God -- Protestant Criticisms of the Orthodox Mission in Japan -- Chaplains in the Field -- Public and Personal Reliance on Icons A Prayer under the Open Skies: Sending Soldiers Off to War -- 9 Fall 1904: A Just and Holy War -- Worship at the Front: Mitrofan and the Soldiers -- Nikolai of Japan: The Kingdoms of This World -- Military Service as a Religious Act -- "Is Our War Just?" A Theological Analysis -- "Which Is the Civilized Power?" -- Religion in the Field: Shikutz -- Christmas at the Orthodox Mission in Japan: "A Two-Story House" -- 10 1905: "The Scourging Hand of a Loving Father" -- Russia's Religious Zealotry and the Japanese View of Christianity -- The Paschal Edict, 1905: Religious Toleration in Russia -- Mukden and Tsushima -- St. George, Not the Dragon: The Chaplain's Perspective -- Perspective of a POW: Japan as "Heaven on Earth" -- The Mother Church and the Daughter Church -- "The Scourging Hand of a Loving Father" -- The Little Ship Survives -- Conclusion -- A "Wasted Opportunity": Russia's Failure to Capitalize on Orthodoxy -- The Political Theology of Nikolai of Japan -- The Renaissance of the Christ-Loving Military in the Post-Soviet Era -- "The War on Terrorism Is a Holy War": Patriarch Kirill, 2016 -- The Future of the Moral Language of War -- Notes -- Index -- Scriptural references |
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| ISBN: | 1474253776 |