Let There Be Enlightenment

Matytsin, Anton

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“…The language of "Enlightenment" as a metaphor for the practical advancement of historical progress has its origins in a Christian theological context. 13 In many parts of Europe, religious institutions far overshadowed their secular counterparts in terms of their professed commitment to Enlightenment values. 14 The Russian Empire was no exception in this regard, and the notion of Enlightenment ("prosveshchenie") carried ambiguously religious and secular meanings throughout the eighteenth century.…”

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Making Sense of the Empire’s Others:Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions and the European Enlightenment

Holden

2024

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This article is an analysis of Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions, published in 1782. It places the dictionary in the historical and cultural context of Enlightenment Europe, from which the genre was drawn, and suggests that Chulkov’s use of the genre was part of his own efforts to fashion himself as a civilized, Enlightened man. The article considers the various practices and beliefs described in the dictionary and lays out the various categories of people those which “superstitious” practices and beliefs were ascribed. By comparing the various categories of people described in the dictionary, the article argues that Chulkov’s vision of the Others of the Russian Empire was characterized by a sympathy towards Orthodox Christians and a skepticism about the ability of non-Orthodox subjects of the empire to become civilized. It also considers how Chulkov’s treatment of women and Old Believers reveals his own anxieties about the persistence of superstition into an ostensibly Enlightened era of history.

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Making Sense of the Empire’s Others:Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions and the European Enlightenment

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2024

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“…6.The responses of ordinary and “enlightened” early modern Europeans to their own nocturnalization have been examined insightfully by Darrin McMahon (2018a), building on Koslofsky (2011). See also the chapters from Matytsin (2018) and McMahon (2018b) in Matytsin and Edelstein (2018).…”

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Offshoring the invisible world? American ghosts, witches, and demons in the early enlightenment

Koslofsky

2021

Critical Research on Religion

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The fierce debate about the reality of spirits and the “Invisible World” which flared up in the 1690’s helped define the early Enlightenment. All sides in this debate—from Spinoza and Balthasar Bekker to John Beaumont and Cotton Mather—refashioned familiar metaphors of light and darkness and connected them with the world beyond Europe in surprising new ways. This article shows how this key controversy of the early Enlightenment was built upon references to darkness, light, and the benighted pagan peoples of the world. As new street lighting and improved domestic lighting nocturnalized daily life in the Netherlands, London, and Paris, the old denizens of the night - ghosts, spirits, and witches—were increasingly relegated to the extra-European world and used to articulate new categories of human difference based on civility, reason, and skin color. These new categories of human difference—new ways of seeing and ordering the world—were essential to the formation of early modern whiteness and the Enlightenment.

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Brown, Stewart, Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer (eds), The Church and Empire. (Studies in Church History, .) Pp. xvi +  incl.  ills and  table. New York-Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), . £.      Kinross, John (foreword Richard Frith), Churches of the marches. Pp.  incl.  colour and black-and-white ills. Stroud: Amberley, . £. (paper).      Matytsin, Anton M. and Dan Edelstein, Let there be enlightenment. The religious and mystical sources of rationality. Pp. viii +  incl.  ills. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, . £..      Roeber, Anthony, Mixed marriages. An Orthodox history. Pp. . New York: Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press, . $.      Sedgwick, Peter H., The origins of Anglican moral theology. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, .) Pp. x + . Leiden-Boston: Brill, . € (paper).     ;   Wilkens, Steve and Alan G. Padgett (eds), Introduction to philosophy. Christianity and the big questions. Pp. vi + .

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Let There Be Enlightenment

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Making Sense of the Empire’s Others:Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions and the European Enlightenment

Making Sense of the Empire’s Others:Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions and the European Enlightenment

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