Book Summary
..". a fascinating read for everyone interested in Russia, religion, and modernity." -- Nadieszda Kizenko In the early 20thcentury, Baptists were the fastest-growing non-Orthodox religious group amongRussians and Ukrainians. Heather J. Coleman traces the development of Baptistevangelical communities through a period of rapid industrialization, war, andrevolution, when Russians found themselves asking new questions about religion andits place in modern life. Baptists' faith helped them navigate the problems ofdissent, of order and disorder, of modernization and westernization, and of nationaland social identity in their changing society. Making use of newly availablearchival material, this important book reveals the ways in which the Baptists' ownexperiences, and the widespread discussions that they generated, illuminate theemergence of new social and personal identities in late Imperial and early SovietRussia, the creation of a public sphere and a civic culture, and the role ofreligious ideas in the modernization process.
Book Details
| Book Name | Russian Baptists And Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929 |
| Author | Heather J. Coleman |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (Apr 2005) |
| ISBN | 9780253345721 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1933 |