{"product_id":"colonizing-russias-promised-land-orthodoxy-and-community-on-the-siberian-steppe-hardback-9781442637191","title":"Colonizing Russia's Promised Land; Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe (Hardback) 9781442637191","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eColonizing Russia's Promised Land\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAileen E. Friesen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442637191\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 2 b\u0026amp;w maps\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This work does fill an important gap in our knowledge and understanding of the Orthodox Church\u0026amp;#x2019;s important role in Russifying the empire\u0026amp;#x2019;s Siberian frontier in the last decades of the tsarist regime. It should be of interest to scholars specializing in Russian imperial history as well as the history of Christian missions in settler colonial situations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Sergei Kan, Dartmouth College (\u003cem\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"In this engaging monograph, Aileen Friesen examines the role of the Orthodox Church in colonizing, Russifying, and \"civilizing\" the Siberian frontier between 1895 and the Bolshevik Revolution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University (\u003cem\u003eSibirica\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Friesen\u0026amp;#x2019;s work makes a valuable contribution to the growing historiography on Siberia and more broadly on Orthodox identity and lived religion as she exposes the diversity of \u0026amp;#x2018;authentic expression of Orthodox belief.\u0026amp;#x2019; Her writing is rich with vivid descriptions of the Siberian landscape and amusing anecdotes that bring the conflicts and contradictions over the nuances of religious ritual to life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - A.J. Demoskoff, Briercrest College and Seminary (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Mennonite Studies\u003c\/em\u003e) \"In this case study of Omsk diocese, formed in western Siberia and the Kazakh steppe in 1887, Aileen Friesen demonstrates that while Orthodoxy meant a great deal to settlers and state officials alike, its meaning on the ground in Siberia was far from straightforward … [a]n excellent piece of work with much to offer both historians of the Russian Empire and scholars of religion and empire more generally.\" - Ian W. Campbell, University of California, Davis (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. \u003ci\u003eColonizing Russia\u0026amp;#x2019;s Promised Land \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Russian state officials aspired to lay claim to land that was politically under their authority, but remained culturally unfamiliar. By exploring the formation and evolution of Omsk diocese – a settlement mission – \u003ci\u003eColonizing Russia\u0026amp;#x2019;s Promised Land \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia\u0026amp;#x2019;s imperial periphery by \"russifying\" the land and marginalizing the Indigenous Kazakh population. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the first study exploring the role of Orthodoxy in settler colonialism, Aileen Friesen shows how settlers, clergymen, and state officials viewed the recreation of Orthodox parish life as practised in European Russia as fundamental to the establishment of settler communities, and to the success of colonization. Friesen uniquely gives peasant settlers a voice in this discussion, as they expressed their religious aspirations and fears to priests and tsarist officials. Despite this agreement, tensions existed not only among settlers, but also within the Orthodox Church as these groups struggled to define what constituted the Russian Orthodox faith and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Settler Diocese\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Churches as a National Project\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Parishes under Construction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Politics of Pastoring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Living and Dying among Strangers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 An Anthill of Baptists in a Land of Muslims\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588179292440,"sku":"9781442637191","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/colonizing-russias-promised-land-orthodoxy-and-community-on-the-siberian-steppe-hardback-9781442637191","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}