Christianizing Crimea

ISBN-13: 9780875804125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Mara Kozelsky

Opis

Analyzes the development of Orthodox Christianity in Crimea. Provides a case study of religious nationalism in Eastern Europe and explores strategies of Church expansion, the importance of Byzantine history and the Greeks, assimilation of pagan and Tatar traditions, the crafting of Russian identity through print media, and Christianizing in post-Soviet Crimea.