{"product_id":"holy-fathers-secular-sons-9780875806655","title":"Holy Fathers Secular Sons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoly Fathers, Secular Sons\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study of the Orthodox clergy''s contribution to Russian society. Prior to the 1860s, clergymen''s sons were not allowed to leave the castelike clergy in large numbers. When permission was granted, they responded by entering free professions and political movements in droves. Challenging the standard view of educated pre-revolutionary Russians as largely westernized, secular, and patriarchal, Laurie Manchester demonstrates that the clergymen''s sons did retain their fathers'' values. This was true even of the minority who became atheists. Drawing on the clergy''s commitment to moral activism, anti-aristocratism, and nationalism, clergymen''s sons believed they could, and should, save Russia. The consequence was a cultural revolution that helped pave the way for the 1917 revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing a massive array of previously untapped archival and published sourcesincluding lively first-hand autobiographical writings of over two hundred cl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell written, argued, and footnoted, and deserve[s] a place in the canon of primary studies of Russian history.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging, original volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the role that Russian Orthodoxy, through priests' offspring, played in that country's social and cultural history. It is a model of definitive, exhaustive archival research.\u003c\/p\u003e * Brandeis University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author's scholarly apparatus, her extensively documented sources material, and her cultural and sociological analysis offer a coherent and convincing picture of a previously unstudied social class... Her study of the \u003ci\u003epopovichi's\u003c\/i\u003e contribution to the Russian intelligentsia, Russia's revolutionary path, and national identity forges a crucial missing link in Russian culture's evolutionary chain.\u003c\/p\u003e * Slavic and East European Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eManchester has made a major contribution to the historiography not only of Russia, but of European modernity. Manchester's work supplements and corrects the works of earlier cultural historians, such as Reinhard Bendix and Liah Greenfeld, who have tried to discern religion's role in the rise of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e * Church History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations and Tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Backdrop: Clerical Life and Representations of Popovichi\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Popovichi and Their Fathers Judge Other Social Estates\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Prescriptive Norms for the Sacred Estate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Clerical Childhood as Heaven on Earth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Martyrdom, Moral Superiority, and a Bursa Education\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Holy Exodus: Leaving the Clergy to Impose Clerical Traditions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: The Search for Secular Salvation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Data on Identifiable PopovichiÆs Personal Texts\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406425268567,"sku":"9780875806655","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780875806655.jpg?v=1730495758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/holy-fathers-secular-sons-9780875806655","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}