Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe Volume 23 Issue 2 Article 3 4-2003 The Origins of 'Heresy' on Mount Athos: Ilarion's Na Gorakh Kavkaza (1907) G. M. Hamburg University of Notre Dame Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree Part of the Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Hamburg, G. M. (2003) "The Origins of 'Heresy' on Mount Athos: Ilarion's Na Gorakh Kavkaza (1907)," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 23 : Iss. 2 , Article 3. Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol23/iss2/3 This Article, Exploration, or Report is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE ORIGINS OF ‘HERESY’ ON MOUNT ATHOS: ILARION’S NA GORAKH KAVKAZA (1907) by G. M. Hamburg Gary M. Hamburg is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, teaching in the area of cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of Politics of the Russian Nobility, 1881-1905 (Rutgers, 1984) and of B.N. Chicherin and Early Russian Liberalism, 1828- 1866. (Stanford, 1992). This essay, presented at the AAASS convention in Philadelphia (November, 2002) is part of a larger projected monograph. The 1913 upheaval on Mouth Athos pitted “insurgent” Russian monks against the Orthodox establishment on the Holy Mountain, in Istanbul and St.