Brian P Bennett

Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Church Slavonic - the traditional language of the Russian Orthodox Church - has enjoyed a strong revival in the post-Soviet period, as has the Russian Orthodox Church itself. This book examines the revival of Church Slavonic, relating it to a wide range of contemporary social and cultural developments in contemporary Russia, including debates about protecting Russia from western cults and culture, debates about recovering pre-revolutionary traditions and articulating Russian/Orthodox identities, and to factionalism and renewal within the Orthodox Church. It thereby explores the revival of orthodoxy in Russia not from the standpoint of ecclesiastical politics or church-state relations, but rather through the myths, rituals, symbols, texts and discourses that span both official and popular religion in post-Soviet Russia. As such the book will be of great interest to scholars of sociolinguisitcs and of religion, as well as to Russian studies specialists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780415780636
• ISBN-10: 0415780632
• Artikelnr.: 32730962

Autorenporträt

Brian P. Bennett is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Niagara University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Religion
language
religious language 3. Az
buki
vedi: the ABC's of religious literacy 4. Translator
traitor? the debate over liturgical language 5. Logos: Slavonic letterforms and the graphic environment 6. From Marx and Lenin to Cyril and Methodius 7. Scripting Russian history: alphabet mysticism and conspiracy theory