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A Skeptical Pilgrim: Theodore Dreiser and the Russian Orthodox Church in 1927

open access: yes, 2015
During his trip to the Soviet Union (4.11.1927–13.1.1928) Theodore Dreiser among other things paid much attention to the Soviet religious policy and the relations between the church and the Soviet state.
Panova Ol'ga
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Le cimetière russe de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois : histoire et enjeux identitaires d’un coin de Russie en France.

open access: yesCahiers du MIMMOC, 2015
In 1927, the Russian princess Vera Mestchersky founded at the small town of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois a nursing home for the Russian emigrants that had fled from revolutionary Russia and found refuge in France.
Vassilis PNEVMATIKAKIS
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

The Garden and the Gardener: Film, Creativity, and the Gift of Creation

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In his essay ‘From God the Artist to Man the Creator’, Jean‐Louis Chrétien considers the possibility that human creativity can participate in divine creativity. As created, creative beings, Chrétien suggests that our art and other creative enterprise may become a site for participation in God's act of creation. This article takes its lead from
James Lorenz
wiley   +1 more source

Lost in Communication? Beyond the Aporia of Kenosis

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary kenoticist Christologies reach an impasse when they conflate metaphorical and analogical predication. Interpreting divine “self‐emptying” in analogical terms—as divine self‐divestment—generates ethical concerns as well as philosophical, exegetical, and doctrinal difficulties.
Ligita Ryliškytė SJE
wiley   +1 more source

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

“We Can No Longer Live by the Domostroi”: The Riddles of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 417-437, October 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes the rebuses (picture riddles) of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva. It argues that despite their seemingly modest nature as artefacts of everyday leisure, Mordovtseva used these puzzles to make radical claims and assert herself as a public intellectual.
Ksenia Butuzova, Julia Mannherz
wiley   +1 more source

International Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church during the “New Deal” Between the State and the Church. Periodization and the Elements of Crisis

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018
The article describes the international activities of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate during the “new deal” in the state-church relations (late 1930s – first half of the 1950s).
A. L. BEGLOV
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