| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on translation and transliteration; 1 Introduction; 2 Religion, language, religious language; 3 Az, buki, vedi: The ABCs of religious literacy; 4 Translator, traitor?: The debate over liturgical language; 5 Logos: Slavonic letterforms and the graphic environment; 6 From Marx and Lenin to Cyril and Methodius; 7 Scripting Russian history: Alphabet mysticism and conspiracy theory; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at the Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church Slavic language -- Russia (Federation)
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Russian language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Language and culture -- Russia (Federation)
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Church Slavic language
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Language and culture
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Russian language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203818435 |
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0203818431 |
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