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Author Friesen, Aileen, 1980- author.

Title Colonizing Russia's promised land : Orthodoxy and community on the Siberian Steppe / Aileen E. Friesen
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020
© University of Toronto Press 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) ) : illustrations, map
Contents A Settler Diocese -- Churches as a National Project -- Parishes under Construction -- The Politics of Pastoring -- Living and Dying among Strangers -- An Anthill of Baptists in a Land of Muslims
Summary "The 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. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land examines 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--Colonizing Russia's Promised Land reveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia's imperial periphery by "russifying" the land and marginalizing the Indigenous Kazakh population."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-216) and index
Notes English
Subject Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- Kazakhstan -- History -- 19th century
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ fast
Subject Church and state -- Kazakhstan -- History -- 19th century
Church and state -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
Church and state
Colonization
SUBJECT Kazakhstan -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century
Siberia (Russia) -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century
Kazakhstan -- Church history -- 19th century
Siberia (Russia) -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Kazakhstan
Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020448127
ISBN 1442624736
9781442624740
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