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The Tsar's foreign faiths : toleration and the fate of religious freedom in imperial Russia
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ISBN: 9780199591770 0199591776 0191757772 0191667625 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making "religious toleration" a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths show that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order."--Jacket.

Russian society and the Orthodox Church : religion in Russia after communism
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ISBN: 1134360827 1280063203 0203014537 9780203014530 0415320534 9780415320535 9780415546164 9781134360772 9781134360819 9781134360826 1134360819 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon,

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Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism, which in turn have influenced the ways in which Russians understand civil society, including those of its features - pluralism and freedom of conscience - that are essential for a functioning democracy. It shows how the official church, including the Moscow Patriarchate, has impeded the developm

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