The Encyclopedia of World Religions

The Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438110383

Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.

Lenin's Jewish Question

Lenin's Jewish Question
Author: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300168608

The grandson of a Jew, whose Jewish relatives converted to Christianity, whose allies played down his Jewish origins just as fervently as his enemies played them up, V.I. Lenin makes for a fascinating case study of the many complexities associated with 'Jewish question' in Russia.

The Making of the New Martyrs of Russia

The Making of the New Martyrs of Russia
Author: Karin Hyldal Christensen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351850350

Following the end of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church has canonized a great number of Russian saints. Whereas in the first millennium of Russian Christianity (988-1988) the Church recognized merely 300 Russian saints, the number had grown to more than 2,000 by 2006. This book explores the remarkable phenomenon of new Russian martyrdom. It outlines the process of canonization, examines how saints are venerated, and relates all this to the ways in which the Russian state and its people have chosen to remember the Soviet Union and commemorate the victims of its purges. The book includes in-depth case studies of particular saints and examines the diverse ways in which they are venerated.