The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Culture and Society after Socialism)

The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a pres...

By Douglas Rogers
Series: Culture and Society after Socialism
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press; First Edition edition (October 22, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780801475207
ISBN-13: 978-0801475207
ASIN: 0801475201
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 984142
Format: PDF Text djvu ebook

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