Entangled Interactions between Religion and National Consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe

Published by Academic Studies Press 2020

Entangled Interactions between Religion and National Consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by: Yoko Aoshima

In the series Lithuanian Studies without Borders

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693575

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This book elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, shedding light on various cases in Central and Eastern Europe. Though those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from disappearing, strongly impacted on the emerging national consciousness.

Author / Editor information

Aoshima Yoko :

Yoko Aoshima studies modern history of the Russian Empire, with a focus on imperial policies, especially in the field of education and social transformation. She taught at Aichi University and Kobe University, and joined the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University as an associate professor in October 2020.

Yoko Aoshima studies modern history of the Russian Empire with a focus on imperial policies, especially in the field of education and social transformation. She has taught at Aichi University and Kobe University, and recently joined as an associate professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University.

Reviews

“[M]any of [the essays] offer excellent treatment of particular research questions and shed light on previously understudied topics.”

– Sebastian Rimestad, Ab Imperio

“This volume of collected essays offers an opportunity to investigate key questions regarding imperial understandings of faith, confessional divides and loyalties, and the relationship between national culture and religion in a space less known to historians of religion in Europe despite a rich specialist historiography. It ventures beyond well-trodden concerns for Polish Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy to consider varied religious and national identities in successive multi-ethnic states of central and eastern Europe. … Collectively, these essays provide critical insight into evolving, elite literature on national identity and remind us of the important function that media plays in disseminating and consolidating sentiment. … The volume’s assertion of regional differences among Uniates as well as adherents of other faiths is especially compelling. … [T]he diversity of expression is readily apparent in the capable research of these experts.”

– Matthew D. Pauly, Michigan State University, The Slavic Review (Spring 2022)

"This collected volume is a suggestive example of the kind of scholarship happening in what may be loosely called borderlands studies. Refreshingly, it examines what its title says it does — the entangled interactions between religion and national consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe. One might therefore expect the usual suspects: archivally-researched local studies of hotly contested sainthood and conversion, church architecture, the popular press, education, national festivals and social work, all shedding light on various regions in the lands encompassed by the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. One does get all that. But the essays in this volume do something more focused and more original besides. They show the role of three distinct groups trying to foster national consciousness: Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic clergy, local lay intelligentsias and the Russian or Habsburg imperial states. The occasional cooperation—and, far more often, violent collision—of these different constituencies and agendas make one profoundly sympathetic to anyone caught between them—above all the ‘folk’ itself."

—Nadieszda Kizenko, University at Albany, Slavonic and East European Review, (vol. 99, no. 3, July 2021)

“This book mobilizes a truly international team of scholars on three continents who use sources in numerous languages. Centered on the diverse lands of East-Central Europe, the essays skillfully explore the implication of religious practices, institutions, and rhetoric in the formation of national consciousness and the making of modernity. Especially notable are the wide range of issues that the volume addresses—church architecture and sainthood, the press and education, festivals and philanthropy, conversion and sociology—and the diverse voices present in the analyses. The volume makes an admirable contribution to our understanding of this complicated part of Europe, and scholars of religion and nation there will surely benefit from engaging with its findings.”

—Paul W. Werth, Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Yoko Aoshima Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Uniate Martyr Josaphat and His Role as a Confessionalizing, Integrating, and Nationalizing Influence Chiho Fukushima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Conversion and Culture in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1800–55 Barbara Skinner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Religion in the Rhetoric of the 1863–64 Uprising Zita Medišauskienė Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Orthodox Christianity Emerging as an Ethical Principle in School Education in the 1860–70s Yoko Aoshima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
The Roman Catholic Clergy and the Notion of Lithuanian National Identity Vilma Žaltauskaitė Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
The Nobility in the Lithuanian National Project in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Approach of the Catholic Clergy Olga Mastianica-Stankevič Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Praising Christ, Serving the Nation: The Ideology of the Catholic Newspaper Biełarus (1913–15) Aliaksandr Bystryk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Defining the Public Sphere through Cultural Boundaries: Creating a “Czech” National Society in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia Taku Shinohara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
“Building” Nationalism: St. Elisabeth’s Church in Lemberg Dominika Rank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Local Governance and Religion in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905–14: Multireligious Relief Actions for Unemployed Workers in Łódź Kenshi Fukumoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Max Weber and Eastern Europe: The Religious Background to Modern Nationalism Hajime Konno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: History; 19th century; 20th century; Empire; Russia; Central Eastern Europe; religion; nationalism; modernization; politics; Lithuania; Baltic states; Soviet; USSR; Habsburg; Romanov; Reformation; Orthodox Church; Christianity; religious tradition; rites; clergy; confession; historiography; resistance; identity; Catholicism; Uniate; Poland; class; ethnicity; Belarus; borderlands; Czech; pre-WWI; social science

eBook

Published: August 18, 2020
ISBN: 9781644693575