The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
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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 presence...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801475201
ISBN13:9780801475207
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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