A Historical Study of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska
Author : Albert E. Watkins
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Albert E. Watkins
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Sergei Kan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295978062
As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations.
Author : Viacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1998-12
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ISBN : 0788139495
In connection with the 200th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, an exhibition entitled "In The Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures", including some of the most important and interesting documents from the large archives of the Church. This volume summarizes the results of the study of the archives, stressing their relevance for the problem of semiotic nets of communication in a multilingual and multicultural society. The translation of Biblical and Church-related documents into native languages is discussed and the social and religious aspects of communication and semiotic contact are examined.
Author : Fern A. Wallace
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Alaska
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Author : Lydia Black
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1889963046
This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."
Author : Barbara Sweetland Smith
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Church records and registers
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Also examines the cross-cultural influence of the missions on the Alaska native population.
Author : Gregory Afonsky
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Alaska
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Implantation and growth of Orthodox Christianity in North America from discovery of Alaska until Russian revolution.
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2016-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333815684
Excerpt from Historical Outline of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America and in Particular of the Parish of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the City of Toronto At that time Bishop John had under his jurisdiction, besides Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and California, also a parish in New York which was founded in 1870 and whose first pastor was Father Nicholas Bierring, a native of Denmark and formerly professor of philosophy and history of the Roman Catholic Seminary in Baltimore, who Joined the Rus sian Orthodox Church because of his disagreement with the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope. In this church in New York the liturgy was performed, in turn, in Church Slavonic and in English, and the English services attracted a growing attendance of Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Sergei Kan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 029580534X
In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations. By weighing the one body of evidence against the other, he has reevaluated this history, arriving at a persuasive new concept of “converged agendas”—the view that the Tlingit and the Russians tended to act in mutually beneficial ways but for entirely different reasons throughout the period of their contact with one another. The Russian-American Company began operations in southeastern Alaska in the 1790s. Against a description of Tlingit culture at the time of the Russians’ arrival, Kan examines Russian Orthodox theology, ritual practice, and missionary methods, and the Tlingit response to them. An uneasy symbiosis characterized the early era of the Russian-American Company, when the trading relationship outweighed any spiritual or social rapprochement. A second, major focus of Kan’s study is the Tlingit experience with American colonial domination. He attributes a sudden revival of Tlingit interest in Orthodoxy in the 1880s as their attempt to maintain independence in the face of concerted efforts by the newcomers (and especially Presbyterian missionaries) to Americanize them. Memory Eternal shows the colonial encounter to be both a power struggle and a dialogue between different systems of meaning. It portrays Native Alaskans not as helpless victims but as historical agents who attempted to adjust to the changing reality of their social world without abandoning fundamental principles of their precolonial sociocultural order or their strong sense of self-respect.