DOC Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South (Asian American Experience) by From University of Illinois Press in History

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From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith; this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers; of clergy and laity; nobles and merchants; workers and peasants; men and women; Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodoxy emerges here as a multidimensional and dynamic faith. Beyond enhancing our understanding of Orthodox Christianity as practiced in Imperial Russia; this thoughtfully edited volume offers broad insights into the relationship between religious narrative and social experience and reveals religion's central place in the formation of world views and narrative traditions.