The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia by Paul W. Werth

Paert, Irina

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“…About a year-and-a-half later this procedure matured into another royal order by Nicholas II, granting the right to establish sects, introducing freedom of religion and conscience. As a result, a law was enacted on 17 October 1906, titled "the Freedom of Religion and Worship Law," which, among others, became the founding law of the freedom of worship and authorized the establishment of sects (Waldron 1998;Ascher 2001;Borodin 2004;Werth 2014;Anonymous 1906, p. 1).…”

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The Establishment and Dissolution of the Subbotnik Communities of Petrovka as a Case Study Reflecting Shifts in Russian Geopolitical Interests toward Raskol’nik Religious Settlements in Southern Caucasus, 1909–1915

Shahvar

2024

Religions

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Toward the middle of the nineteenth century, a large Subbotnik community established itself in the village of Privol’noe in the Lankaran district of Baku province in Southern Caucasus. By early 1909, however, the names of two small Subbotnik communities—both in the settlement of Petrovka, near Privol’noe—began to appear in the documents of the Baku province administration. While the Privol’noe community has been thoroughly studied, those of Petrovka remain largely unexplored. At their peak, Petrovka’s two Subbotnik communities were divided, belonging to different Jewish streams, and segregated from each other. Based mainly on documents from the National Historical Archives of the Republic of Azerbaijan (NAHARA), this study uncovers these communities and compares their religious life with each other. It does so in the context of the Russo-Ottoman and Irano-Russian geopolitical rivalries in Southern Caucasus. The study explains how and which aspects of this struggle led Russia to originally establish communities like Petrovka at the start of the examined period. It further explores why Russia later lost interest in supporting the Petrovka communities by the end of said period.

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The Establishment and Dissolution of the Subbotnik Communities of Petrovka as a Case Study Reflecting Shifts in Russian Geopolitical Interests toward Raskol’nik Religious Settlements in Southern Caucasus, 1909–1915

Shahvar

2024

Religions

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“…A Lutheran consistory was founded, and a new Church Law for all Lutheran churches in Russia was ratified in 1832. This structure lasted until the dissolution of the Lutheran churches during Soviet times (Nordbäck and Gunner 2016: 44-5;Werth 2014).…”

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Heritigization and foreign diplomacy

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Nordbäck

2023

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The article investigates the complex negotiation process regarding the renovation of St Catherine’s church in St Petersburg. Additionally, the goal is to gain novel understanding of how former religious spaces can be transformed and highlight the various significances these structures may possess in different contexts, particularly at the junction of religion and cultural heritage. Built in 1865, the church served as a place of worship for the Swedish-speaking congregation for nearly eighty years before being repurposed as a sports school. Recently, Sweden has aimed to restore the church and utilize it as a centre for Swedish–Russian relations. The article examines the reasons and arguments for renovation, as well as the progress that has been made to date. Additionally, it explores the role of Sweden in Russia through the perspectives of various stakeholders, including members of the congregation, diplomats, politicians, architects and priests.

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“…The tension between modern, secular culture, and traditional Jewish values and religious observances, polarized Jewish society inside and outside the Pale of Settlement. 10 Many Jews attended state-sponsored schools (gimnazi), adopting Russian secular culture and forming an elite group known as the Jewish Intelligentsia. Other Jews joined conservative Orthodox communities of ḥaredim, or fostered nativist tendencies by writing and consuming literature in Hebrew and Yiddish.…”

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Hadera: transnational migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the glocal origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict

Marom

2023

Middle Eastern Studies

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The article explores the interplay between transnational migration, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. It discusses the role played by Russian Jews in the development of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine until 1948. It focuses on the Northern Sharon, where three distinct immigrant groups -Circassians, Bosnians and Russian Jews -settled in the 1870s-1890s. Methodologically, it adopts a new, twofold, approach to the genesis of the conflict, by tracing its roots within the broader setting of Eurasian transnational migrations to Palestine, and the stricter context of 'locality expressing glocality', that is, of specific colonies and their development under internal pressures and outside interactions. In 1948, prior actions aimed at achieving ethnic homogeneity through coerced population transfers during the disintegration Eurasian imperial polities served as a blueprint for some of the same Zionist immigrants for achieving plurality in their new Jewish State.This article explores the interplay between transnational migrations, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires, in the genesis of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine (henceforth the conflict).Most scholars discuss the origins of the conflict from a national-territorial perspective. 1 The post-colonial turn in Middle Eastern Studies and Palestine Studies inspired other scholars to regard the conflict as a colonial dispute between Zionist 'settler-colonists' and Arab-Palestinian 'natives'. 2 In the current article, I suggest that reading the pre-national past in light of national spatial and ideological notions is both constrictive and anachronistic.Transnational and local factors influenced the relations between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors long before Palestine's borders were charted. Therefore, I argue for the need to look at the evolution of the conflict beyond the national arena. In structuralist terms, I call on scholars to study the conflict from two hierarchical, thematically contradictory, but narrativelyThe Version f Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Middle Eastern Studies since

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The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia by Paul W. Werth

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The Establishment and Dissolution of the Subbotnik Communities of Petrovka as a Case Study Reflecting Shifts in Russian Geopolitical Interests toward Raskol’nik Religious Settlements in Southern Caucasus, 1909–1915

The Establishment and Dissolution of the Subbotnik Communities of Petrovka as a Case Study Reflecting Shifts in Russian Geopolitical Interests toward Raskol’nik Religious Settlements in Southern Caucasus, 1909–1915

Heritigization and foreign diplomacy

Hadera: transnational migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the glocal origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict

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