The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals

by Douglas Rogers

Book Overview

The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475201
• ISBN13: 9780801475207
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher