Old Believers in a Changing World

by Robert O. Crummey

Book Overview

This important collection of essays by a pioneer in the field focuses on the history and culture of a conservative religious tradition whose adherents have fought to preserve their beliefs and practices from the seventeenth century through today. Old Belief had its origins in a protest against liturgical reforms in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-1600s and quickly grew into a complex torrent of opposition to the Russian state, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806503
• ISBN13: 9780875806501
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher