Orthodox Sisters: Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

by William G. Wagner

Orthodox Sisters explores the relationship between women, religion, and social, cultural, and economic change between 1700 and 1935 through the experiences of Orthodox convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese. Focusing primarily on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, William G. Wagner places the women's experiences in the broader context of developments in female monasticism and religious life in Russia, as well as in Europe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501775723
• ISBN13: 9781501775727
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 434 Pages