Russian Orthodox Religion & Culture

Instructor: Dr. Jason Roberts Listed as: Rus Orthodox Religion/Cultr [email protected] 43015 REE 325 (Also RS 357 & HIS 366N) Office: Burdine 586 Meets MWF 10:00- 11:00AM online Office hours: Tues 1-2 & by appointment ​ Teatime: 2-3

Founded in 988 in Kievan Rus’ with the semi-mythical conversion and baptism of Prince Volodimir, the Russian Orthodox Church (or the Moscow Patriarchate as it is now officially known) has grown to be the largest of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches, and accounts for over half of the world’s more than 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), along with its primate, is preceded only by the four ancient Patriarchates (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) in order of precedence. Moreover, as Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’, the Primate of the ROC claims exclusive spiritual jurisdiction not only over Russia, but over all of the former Soviet Republics excluding only Georgia and Armenia. Throughout its thousand-year history, the Russian Orthodox Church has been a powerful cultural force shaping the art, architecture, literature, and even the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet as well as the moral, philosophical, and political realities of those who live within its sphere of influence.

Drawing from a broad range of primary sources and secondary scholarship, this course examines the role and force of the Orthodox Church in Russian history from the th Christianization of the pagan Slavs beginning in the 10 ​ century, through the 1551 Stoglav ​ ​ Council under Ivan IV “the Terrible” (as a result of which, the ROC’s communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches was noticeably strained), through the Russian Revolution into the Soviet era (when a number of its priests and at least one patriarch were KGB!), and up to the present including Pussy Riot’s guerilla performance of “Punk Prayer” at Christ the Savior Cathedral and an icon-kissing Vladimir Putin. Throughout the course students develop their skill at the critical reading of secondary scholarship by regularly and methodically retracing select scholars’ arguments against other historical surveys and ​ ​ (translated) primary sources in staged collaborative class assignments. For example, we turn from the prescriptive tenets of the Orthodox faith (religion) to descriptive experiences of life within and under Russian Orthodoxy (religiosity), comparing the ROC’s moral ideals with its sometimes-immoral associations as well as its expectations of the faithful with a level of religion they are willing to accept as we follow the arguments of scholars who have tried to define “Orthodox Rus’.” The tension revealed by these comparisons serves, in turn, as context for our discussion of religious groups that broke with the ROC such as the Old

1 Believers (starovery), the Spirit Wrestlers (dukhobory), and the “Milk Drinkers” (molokany) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ as well as with the scholarship that has argued for and against understandings of the schism that birthed these movements as an “Orthodox Reformation.” Our investigation of Russian Orthodox religion and culture draws on everything from mystical theology and holy icons, Old Church Slavonic chants of monastery choirs and ascetic practices of prophetic hermits, to the celebration – both in and out of church – of the yearly cycle of religious holidays, the ROC’s complex relationship with the unofficial practices of Russian folk religion, and the literature and film in which all these things are reflected.

Flags: Global Cultures & Writing ​

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to ​ ​ increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

During spring of 2021 only, this course carries the Writing Flag. Writing Flag courses ​ ​ are designed to give students experience with writing in an academic discipline. In this class, you can expect to write regularly during the semester, complete substantial writing projects, and receive feedback from your instructor to help you improve your writing. You will also have the opportunity to revise one or more assignments, and you may be asked to read and discuss your peers’ work. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from your written work. Writing Flag classes meet the Core Communications objectives of Critical Thinking, Communication, Teamwork, and Personal Responsibility, established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Transferable Skills: Argument Logics

In this course students approach the material through both primary and secondary sources. Each week (unit) consists of 1) a broader history of the period of focus, 2) a translated primary source from that period, and 3) narrower scholarship concerning the role/effect of the primary source within the broader history. Students read the first two readings over the weekend for Tuesday, and for Thursday read the third reading and prepare and upload a discussion question concerning the method and conclusions of articles concerning the primary source. Thursday’s class derives from class discussion (using student discussion questions) from which praise/critique of the scholar’s argument develops. Together, students and the instructor reconstruct the scholar’s argument logic (graphically), identifying strengths and weaknesses.

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I foster a classroom atmosphere in which everyone is treated respectfully, but this does not preclude disagreement. Classroom discussion of the material is an important part of the learning process and it is important for you to feel safe and relaxed so that you can speak up in front of the class without undue anxiety, even if you are uncertain of how your contribution will be received. Please do not hesitate to contact me if there is anything in the classroom that prevents you from speaking in class.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

I value your feedback. If you enjoy your class, let me know. If there are aspects of the class that you do not feel comfortable with, please inform me.

Additional course offerings from the Department of Religious Studies ● If you would like information about majoring or minoring in Religious Studies, contact Kevin Pluta, Undergraduate Advisor for Religious Studies at [email protected] or ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ visit the department’s webpage: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/index.php ​ ​

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The class will be using its Canvas site, accessible to each of you at https://canvas.utexas.edu/ or through your UT Direct account. E‑mail reminders and ​ updates will be sent through Canvas. The instructor answers university email during business hours (M-F 8am-5pm). Do not expect a response after hours, immediately before class time or on weekends. I do check my email after hours, but much more infrequently.

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4 note that both the instructor and the TA for this class are mandatory reporters and MUST share with the Title IX office any information about sexual harassment/assault shared with us by a student whether in-person or as part of a journal or other class assignment. Note that a report to the Title IX office does not obligate a victim to take any action, but this type of information CANNOT be kept strictly confidential except when shared with designated confidential employees. A confidential employee is someone a student can go to and talk about a Title IX matter without triggering that employee to have to report the situation to have it automatically investigated. A list of confidential employees is available on the Title ​ IX website. ​

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University of Texas Honor Code The core values of The University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect toward peers and community.

(1) Each student in this course is expected to abide by the University of Texas Honor Code. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic credit will be the student's own work, unless the instructor explicitly allows collaboration. (2) You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in lecture and the sections with other students. You can give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help from such students. (3) Should copying occur, both the student who copied work from another student and the student who gave material to be copied will both automatically receive a zero for the assignment. Penalty for violation of this Code can also be extended to include failure of the course and University disciplinary action. (4) During examinations, you must do your own work. Talking or discussion is not permitted during the examinations, nor may you compare papers, copy from others, or collaborate in any

5 way. Any collaborative behavior during the examinations will result in failure of the exam and may lead to failure of the course and University disciplinary action.

Assigned Readings: (We read selections from the books and read articles in their ​ ​ ​ entirety.)

Avvakum Petrovich, Jane Ellen Harrison, Hope Mirrlees, and D. S. Mirsky. 1963. The Life of ​ the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself. London: The Hogarth Press. ​ Bacovcin, Helen. The Way of a Pilgrim; And, the Pilgrim Continues His Way: A New ​ Translation. Garden City, N.Y: Image Books, 2003. ​ Bailey, James, and T. G. Ivanova. An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. London: M.E. Sharpe, ​ ​ 2015. Belljustin, Ioann S., and Gregory L. Freeze. 1992. Description of the Clergy in Rural Russia: ​ the memoir of a nineteenth century parish priest. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ​ Berend, Nora. 2010. Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Barford, Paul M. 2001. The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. ​ ​ London: The British Museum Press. Bremer, Thomas. Cross and Kremlin: A Brief History of the Orthodox Church in Russia. Grand ​ ​ Rapids, Michigan [u.a.: Eerdmans, 2013. Burgess, John P. Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia. New Haven: Yale ​ ​ University Press, 2017. Bushkovitch, Paul. 1992. Religion and society in Russia: the sixteenth and seventeenth ​ centuries. New York: Oxford University Press. ​ Coleman, Heather J. Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Source Book on Lived ​ Religion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. ​ Crummey, Robert O. 1970. The Old Believers and the World of Anti-Christ: The Vyg ​ Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855. Madison, Wisconsin: University of ​ Wisconsin. “Epistle of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on the 100th Anniversary of the Tragic Revolution in Russia and Beginning of the Godless Persecutions.” OrthoChristian.Com, orthochristian.com/101826.html. ​ ​ Fedotov, G. P. 1966. The Russian Religious Mind. 1 1. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University ​ ​ Press. Florenskii, Pavel. A. 2000. Iconostasis. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ​ ​ Garrard, John Gordon, and Carol Garrard. 2015. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and ​ Power in the New Russia. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press. ​ Hamburg, Gary M. 2016. Russia's Path toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason ​ 1500-1801. London Yale University Press ​

6 Herrlinger K.P. 2011. "The Religious Landscape of Revolutionary St. Petersburg, 1905-1918". Journal of Urban History. 37 (6): 842-857. ​ ​ Ivanits, Linda J., and Felix J. Oinas. 1992. Russian Folk Belief. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ​ ​ Kalkandzhieva, Daniela. 2017. The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948 From Decline to ​ Resurrection. London, NY: Routledge. ​ Lossky, Vladimir. 1978. Orthodox Theology: An Introduction. Crestwood, Ny: St. Vladimir ​ ​ Seminary Press. Kivelson, Valerie A., and Robert H. Greene. 2003. Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under ​ the Tsars. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. ​ Meyendorff, Paul. 1991. Russia, Ritual, and Reform: The Liturgical Reforms of Nikon in the ​ 17th Century. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ​ Monge, Rico. 2017. "‘Neither Victim nor Executioner’: Essential Insights from Secularization Theory for the Revitalization of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Contemporary World". Religions. 8 (12): 170. ​ ​ Morris, Marcia A, and Aleksei Remizov. Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of ​ Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014. ​ Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. 2004. The Song of Igor's Campaign. Woodstock: Ardis. ​ ​ Nestor, Samuel H. Cross, and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor. 2012. The Russian Primary ​ Chronicle: Laurentian Text. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Mediaeval Academy of ​ America. Ouspensky, Léonide. 1992. Theology of the Icon 1. 1. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary ​ Press. Pospelovskij, Dmitrij V. 1988. Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and Persecutions. New York: ​ ​ St. Martin's Press. Pouncy, Carolyn J. The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the ​ Terrible. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. ​ Puhalo, Lev, and Vasili Novakshonoff. 1997. God's Fools: The Lives of the Holy "Fools for ​ Christ". Dewdney, B.C.: Synaxis Press. ​ Raffensperger, Christian. 2012. Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World. ​ ​ Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Riasanovsky, Nicholas Valentine. 1992. The image of Peter the Great in Russian History and ​ Thought. New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Press. ​ Rock, Stella. 2007. Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic ​ Myth. London: Routledge. ​ Ryan, W R. Russian Magic at the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars, Travellers. ​ ​ London: British Library, 2006. Shevzov, Vera. 2005. Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford ​ ​ University Press.

7 Stone, Caroline. 2011. Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness Arab Travellers in the Far North. ​ ​ London: Penguin. Tolochko, Oleksiy. 2007. "On "Nestor the Chronicler". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 29 (1-4): ​ ​ 31-59. Vernadsky, George. 1976. Kievan Russia. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. ​ ​ Vodolazkin, E. G., and Lisa C. Hayden. 2016. Laurus. London, England: Oneworld ​ ​ Publications. Warner, Elizabeth A. 2000. "Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part II: Death in Natural Circumstances". Folklore. 111 (2): 255-281. ​ ​ Yoffe, Mark, and Joseph Krafczik. Perun: The God of Thunder. New York: Lang, 2003. ​ ​

Recommended Texts:

Laruelle, Marlène, and Jean Radvanyi. Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation. Lanham Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. ​

Basis for evaluation: · 14 online unit quizzes – 25% · 14 discussion questions – 10% · 5 short précis – 50% · 1 final online exam – 15% or Monday lecture classes:

On Mondays we work our way through the PowerPoints, which connect the readings you did to the readings you’re about to do. Questions are welcome, but active discussion is reserved and planned for Wednesdays. ​ ​ For Wednesday discussion classes:

The questions will be shared with the class to help facilitate discussion. Full credit (2 pts) is awarded for questions that are both carefully considered (1 pt) and well-articulated (1 pt). A carefully considered question will invite discussion (as opposed to a simple answer), and a well-articulated question is easy to understand (or just as importantly, difficult to misunderstand). A cumulative score of 20 points represents full credit for the semester. Because you have a possibility of earning 2 points every Wednesday for 14 (full) weeks during the semester (2 x 14 = 28), you may occasionally elect not to provide a question. You are, however, always responsible for the reading.

The prompt questions below should help you identify & formulate your own questions.

8 - What does the author of the assigned reading focus on - what is their intervention? - Does the author have a discernible bias? If so, what is it? (Methodological? Ideological?) - Is there something the author has not addressed but should have? If so, what? ... and why?

For Friday in-class collaborations:

Drawing on secondary scholarship and class discussion from earlier in the week, students work together to identify and frame an interesting and relevant scholarly intervention ​ into the assigned primary source text (the reading for today). This prepares students for the 5 précis assignments, which collectively represent 50% of the course grade.

Course Syllabus (subject to minor revisions pending new publications) ​ ​ ​

Week 1: “The Conversion of the Pagan Rus’” (Jan 20/22)

● Wednesday: Introduction, Goals, & Syllabus ​ Reading for next class: ● Fedotov, G. P. 1966. The Russian Religious Mind. 1 1. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University ​ ​ Press. (pp. 3-20) ● Friday: No in-class précis collaboration on the first week ​ ​ ​ Readings for next class: ● Christianization and the rise of Christian monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200, “Rus’” (pp. 396-410) ​

Week 2: “The Conversion of the Pagan Rus’” (Jan 25/27/29)

● Monday: PowerPoint/lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness Arab Travelers in the Far North. London: Penguin. ​ (45-55) § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Perun: The God of Thunder, pp. 1-34. ​ Quiz ● Friday: & In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Kievan Russia, George Vernadsky (pp. 71-98) ​

Week 3: “Early Christianity among the Kievan Rus’” (Feb 1/3/5)

● Monday: PowerPoint& Lecture ​ Reading for next class:

9 ● Nestor, Samuel H. Cross, and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor. 2012. The Russian Primary ​ Chronicle: Laurentian Text. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. (pp. ​ 86-98 & 109-119) & Stone, Caroline. 2011. § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Tolochko, Oleksiy. 2007. "On "Nestor the Chronicler". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 29 (1-4): ​ ​ 31-59. Quiz ● Friday: & In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Religion and Society in Russia (pp. 10-50) ​

Week 4: “Ivan the Terrible & the Stoglav Council” (Feb 8/10/12) ​ ​

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● Pouncy, Carolyn J. The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the ​ Terrible. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. (Chapters 1-39) ​ § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Kolesov, V. V. 2001. "Domostroi as a Work of Medieval Culture". Subsection 6, pp. 39-51. Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Cross and Kremlin, “Theology and Religious Thought” (pp. 92-104) ​

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Week 6: Recap of Week 4 on Wed. & collaborative précis on Fri. (Feb 24/26)

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Week 7 (formerly 5): “Faith and Works: Orthodox Dogmatic Theology” (Feb 15/17/19) (Mar 1/3/5) ​ ​

● Monday: PowerPoint/lecture & Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Lossky, Vladimir. 1978. Orthodox Theology: An Introduction. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir ​ ​ Seminary Press. (pp. 13-78) § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ Quiz ● Wednesday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Lossky, Vladimir. 1978. Orthodox Theology: An Introduction. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir ​ ​ Seminary Press. (pp. 79-137) ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ ​

10 Reading for next class: ● Meyendorff, Paul. 1991. Russia, Ritual, and Reform: The Liturgical Reforms of Nikon in the ​ 17th Century. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. (37-66) ​

Week 8 (Formerly 6): “Theology of the Icon in Russian Orthodoxy” (Feb 22/24/26) (Mar 8/10/12) ​ ​

● Monday: PowerPoint/lecture & Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Ouspensky, Léonide. 1992. Theology of the Icon 1. 1. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary ​ Press. (pp. 151-194) § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Florenskii, Pavel. A. 2000. Iconostasis. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. (pp. ​ ​ 33-98) Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class:

● ​Spinka, Matthew. "Patriarch Nikon and the Subjection of the Russian Church to the State." Church History 10, no. 4 (1941): 347-66.

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SPRING BREAK (Mar 15-20)

Week 9 (Formerly 7): “Miracle Discourse & Nikonian Reform” (Mar 1/3/5) (Mar 22/24/26) ​ ​

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● Sevastyanova, Svetlana K. “The Newly Discovered Treatise on Patriarch Nikon in the Cultural and Historical Context of Its Epoch.” Scrinium 12, no. 1 (November 17, 2016): 126–179. ​ ​ § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Spinka, Matthew. "Patriarch Nikon and the Subjection of the Russian Church to the State." Church History 10, no. 4 (1941): 347-66. Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Hamburg, Gary M. 2016. Russia's Path toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason ​ 1500-1801. London Yale University Press (pp. 167-91 & 230-41) ​

Week 8: “Raskol: Orthodox Schism & the Old Believers” (Mar 8/10/12) (Mar 29/31/Apr 2) ​ ​ ​

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class:

11 ● Avvakum Petrovich, Jane Ellen Harrison, Hope Mirrlees, and D. S. Mirsky. 1963. The Life of ​ the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself. London: The Hogarth Press. ​ § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Crummey, Robert O. 1970. The Old Believers and the World of Anti-Christ: The Vyg Community ​ ​ and the Russian State, 1694-1855. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin. (Ch. 1) ​ Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Cross and Kremlin, “Monasticism” (pp. 109-120) ​ ​

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Week 9: “The Lives of the Saints: Monks, Pilgrims, and Startzy” (Mar 22/24/26) (Apr 5/7/9) ​ ​ ​ ​

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ○ Vodolazkin, E. G., and Lisa C. Hayden. 2016. Laurus. London, England: Oneworld Publications. ​ ​ § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Williams, Rowan. 2018. "Holy Folly and the Problem of Representing Holiness: Some Literary Perspectives". Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. 1 (1): 3-15. ​ ​ Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Morris, Marcia A, and Aleksei Remizov. Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of ​ Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014. ​

Week 10: “Russia’s Demons & Orthodox Demonology” (Mar 29/31/Apr 2)

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class:

● ​TBD § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading. ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class:

● ​TBD Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Rock, Stella. 2007. Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic ​ Myth. London: Routledge. (selections) ​

Week 11: “Folk Religion: Magic, ‘Superstition,’ & Dvoeverie” (Apr 5/7/9) ​ ​

12 ● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● Ivanits, Linda J., and Felix J. Oinas. 1992. Russian Folk Belief. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ​ ​ ​ (selections) § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class:

● ​Warner, Elizabeth A. 2000. "Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part II: Death in Natural Circumstances". Folklore. 111 (2): 255-281. ​ ​ Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Shevzov, Vera. 2005. Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford ​ ​ University Press. (pp. 12-54)

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Week 12: “The Orthodox Church on the Eve of Revolution” (Apr 12/14/16)

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● Belljustin, Ioann S., and Gregory L. Freeze. 1992. Description of the Clergy in Rural Russia: The ​ ​ Memoir of a Nineteenth Century Parish Priest. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. (selections) ​ § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Herrlinger K.P. 2011. "The Religious Landscape of Revolutionary St. Petersburg, 1905-1918". Journal of Urban History. 37 (6): 842-857. ​ Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● Knox, Zoe. Russian Society and the Orthodox Church, (pp. 45-74) ​ ​ ​

Week 13: “Orthodoxy in Soviet Times: Anti-Religion & Underground Religion” (Apr 19/21/23)

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● Kalkandzhieva, Daniela. 2017. The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948 From Decline to ​ Resurrection. London, NY: Routledge. (selections) ​ ​ § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and Persecutions. “Persecutions 1921-41” (pp. 47-90) ​ ● (Consider subbing from Corley’s Religion in the Soviet Union reader) ​ ​ Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​

13 Reading for next class: ● Garrard, John Gordon, and Carol Garrard. 2015. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and ​ ​ Power in the New Russia. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press. (Ch.1 & 2) ​

Week 14: “The Fall of the Soviet Union and Orthodox ‘Re-Christianization’” (Apr26/ 28/30) Reading: “The Limits of Secularization? The Resurgence of Orthodoxy in Post-Soviet Russia”

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● “Epistle of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on the 100th Anniversary of the Tragic Revolution in Russia and Beginning of the Godless Persecutions.” § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading ​ ​ ● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● Monge, Rico. 2017. "‘Neither Victim nor Executioner’: Essential Insights from Secularization Theory for the Revitalization of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Contemporary World". Religions. 8 (12): 170. ​ Quiz ● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​ Reading for next class: ● TBD

Week 15: “Patriarch Kirill and the Excommunication of Constantinople” (May 3/5/7) Reading: (1997 document outlining ROC’s desired relationship with Russian State)

● Monday: PowerPoint & Lecture ​ Reading for next class: ● TBD § Prepare & upload discussion question from reading ​ ​

● Wednesday: Discussion of primary source reading ​ Reading for next class: ● TBD Quiz

● Friday: In-class précis collaboration • evaluation of secondary source(s) ​

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FINAL EXAM will be administered online through Canvas at the university-scheduled time/date for this ​ course. You will not need to be on campus to take the exam. You can find the scheduled time of this course’s exam by following: https://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules ➤ semester/year ➤ finals ➤ default exam time ​ ​ ​

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