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- W2507577237 abstract "My work examines how former Soviet atheists have discovered and engaged with their national religious tradition, Orthodox Christianity, after moving to the United States and becoming members of the local parish church. It is based on two years of fieldwork among the parishioners of the Southern California Orthodox Church Abroad. I use the trope of the Russian spiritual soil which intertwines the spiritual, national, and material elements in Orthodoxy to position my research historically and comparatively. While earlier, especially post-revolutionary forced immigrants, equated maintaining religious identities and national church practices with the preservation of a true spirit of Orthodoxy, removed from its physical roots, for recent, post-Soviet immigrants the parish church, I argue, became a space to retrieve religion as part of their culture, history and identity. The parish setting provides a fruitful space to investigate the emergence of post- Soviet religious life, it is a space where habitual secular sensibilities meet and interact with arising religious ones. The parish setting in the foreign context adds new dimensions to these processes. Unlike in Russia, it employs Western models of organization and management, mostly borrowed from American Protestant churches, and secular Western practices of democratic voting and the equality of the clergy and the laity clash with the desire of new believers to submit to the spiritual authority of the parish priest and Church hierarchy. In my dissertation I trace and analyze the tensions and dynamics involved in processes of retrieval of the Orthodox identity by doing the ethnography of various practices, such as participation in the sacramental life of the church and in everyday management of parish life, veneration of miracle working icons, and pilgrimages. In search of a more pure and authentic spiritual life, for example, some parishioners go on regular pilgrimages to a Greek Orthodox monastery in Arizona, while others utilize personal connections with priests in Russia to seek spiritual counseling. The local" @default.
- W2507577237 created "2016-09-16" @default.
- W2507577237 creator A5074594477 @default.
- W2507577237 date "2014-01-01" @default.
- W2507577237 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
- W2507577237 title "Peer Reviewed Title: Russian Spiritual Soil and the Retrieval of the Orthodox Christian Identity among Post-Soviet Immigrants to the United States Author:" @default.
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