The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

FOREWORDMetropolitan Hilarion Of Volokalamsk: INTRODUCTION PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXTS 1: David Goldfrank: Christianity in Rus' and Muscovy 2: Nadieszda Kizenko: The Orthodox Church and Religious Life in Imperial Russia 3: Vera Shevzov: The Orthodox Church and Religion in Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1924 4: Zoe Knox: Russian Religious Life in the Soviet Era PART II THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 5: Oleg V. Bychkov: The Theological-Aesthetic Vision of Metropolitan Filaret 6: Patrick Lally Michelson: Russian Orthodox Thought in the Church's Clerical Academies 7: G. M. Hamburg: Petr Chaadaev and the Slavophile-Westernizer Debate 8: Randall A. Poole: Slavophilism and the Origins of Russian Religious Philosophy 9: Victoria Frede: Nihilism 10: George Pattison: Dostoevsky 11: Caryl Emerson: Tolstoy 12: Catherine Evtuhov: Vladimir Soloviev as a Religious Philosopher PART III THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL RENAISSANCE, 1900-1922 13: Erich Lippman: God-seeking, God-building, and the New Religious Consciousness 14: Ruth Coates: Theosis in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Religious Thought 15: Randall A. Poole: The Liberalism of Russian Religious Idealism 16: Regula M. Zwahlen: Sergei Bulgakov's Intellectual Journey, 1900-1922 17: Christoph Schneider: Pavel Florensky: At the Boundary of Immanence and Transcendence 18: Ana Siljak: The Personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev 19: Scott M. Kenworthy: The Name-Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy 20: Dominic Rubin: Judaism and Russian Religious Thought PART IV ART IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT 21: Victor V. Bychkov: Russian Religious Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 22: Rebecca Mitchell: 'Musical Metaphysics' in Late Imperial Russia 23: Martha M. F. Kelly: Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry 24: Clemena Antonova: The Icon and Visual Arts at the Time of the Russian Religious Renaissance PART V RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ABROAD 25: Antoine Arjakovsky: The Way, The Journal of the Russian Emigration (1925-1940) 26: George Pattison: Berdyaev and Christian Existentialism 27: Ramona Fotiade: Lev Shestov: The Meaning of Life and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge 28: Fr. Robert F. Slesinski: Sergius Bulgakov in Exile: The Flowering of a Systematic Theologian 29: Philip Boobbyer: Semyon Frank 30: Martin Beisswenger: Lev Karsavin 31: Paul L. Gavrilyuk: Varieties of Neopatristics: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and Alexander Schmemann 32: Steven J. Sutcliffe And John P. Wilmett: 'The Work': The Teachings of G. I. Gurdieff and P. D. Ouspensky in Russia and Beyond PART VI RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN SOVIET RUSSIA 33: Sr. Theresa Obolevitch: Alexei Losev: 'The Last Russian Philosopher' of the Silver Age 34: Andrea Gulotta: Religious Thought and Experience in the Prison Camps 35: Alina Birzache: Seeking God and Spiritual Salvation in Russian Cinema 36: Caryl Emerson: Mikhail Bakhtin 37: Katerina Kocandrle Bauer And Tim Noble: Alexander Men and Russian Religious Thought in the Post-Soviet Situation PART VII ASSESSMENTS 38: Rowan Williams: Tradition in the Russian Theological World 39: Paul Valliere: The Influence of Russian Religious Thought on Western Theology in the Twentieth Century 40: Igor I. Evlampiev: The Tradition of Christian Thought in the History of Russian Culture

A comprehensive collection of essays exploring a wide array of themes related to the history and development of Russian Religious Thought. Written by an international team of authors who are leading scholars in the fields of theology, philosophy, history, aesthetics, and literary studies. An authoritative and unparalleled reference for students and scholars

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Her scholarship has focused on the Russian classics (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian opera and theatre, and the metaphysical ground of the humanities. Recent projects include the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), the allegorical-historical novelist Vladimir Sharov (1952-2018), and the neoThomist aesthetics of Jacques Maritain. George Pattison is an Anglican priest and has held posts in Cambridge (1991-2001), Aarhus (2002-3), Oxford (2004-13) and Glasgow (2013-) universities. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in the field of modern theology and philosophy of religion, including co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard and The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought. He is currently writing a three part philosophy of Christian life, Part 1, A Phenomenology of the Devout Life was published in 2018 and Part 2, A Rhetorics of the Word, in 2019. Randall A. Poole is Professor of History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He is also a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Fellow of the International Center for the Study of Russian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2003); co-editor (with G. M. Hamburg) of A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2013); co-editor (with Paul W. Werth) of Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018); and author of numerous articles and book chapters.

A comprehensive collection of essays exploring a wide array of themes related to the history and development of Russian Religious Thought Written by an international team of authors who are leading scholars in the fields of theology, philosophy, history, aesthetics, and literary studies An authoritative and unparalleled reference for students and scholars