Spring 2025 Russian GR6142 section 001

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CULTURE

Call Number 11533
Day & Time
Location
W 4:10pm-6:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Valentina Izmirlieva
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description From Prince Valdimir’s Rus’ to the Post-Soviet Russia of Vladimir Putin, religion has remained a key factor in the making and remaking of Russian polity and culture. This course will explore how Orthodox Christianity—whether privileged or persecuted—came to dominate the Russian religious scene and shape Russian institutions, discourses, and lived experiences. Students will draw from a variety of primary and secondary sources—chronicles, saints’ lives, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, legal documents, icons and other ritual objects, films and fictional texts, as well as a large body of scholarly works and contemporary media materials—to examine how Russia’s Orthodox past and its rewriting into competing “histories” have been used over time as “legacies” shaping the present and the future.
Web Site Vergil
Department Slavic Languages
Enrollment 6 students (12 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Subject Russian
Number GR6142
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Section key 20251RUSS6142G001