Faith, Community, Resiliency: The Nizhegorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807-1935

FAIN: FB-38346-03

William G. Wagner
Presidents and Trustees of Williams College (Williamstown, MA 01267-2600)

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Associated Products

The Transformation of Female Orthodox Monasticism in Nizhnii Novgorod Diocese, 1764-1929, in Comparative Perspective (Article)
Title: The Transformation of Female Orthodox Monasticism in Nizhnii Novgorod Diocese, 1764-1929, in Comparative Perspective
Author: William G. Wagner
Abstract: Compares the expansion of female Orthodox monasticism in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese, Russia, after 1764 to similar growth of Catholic female orders and Protestant diaconates in Europe and North America over the same period and explains these processes in the context of modernizing change.
Year: 2006
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Modern History
Publisher: University of Chicago

?Orthodox Domesticity’: Creating a Social Role for Women in Late Imperial Russia (Book Section)
Title: ?Orthodox Domesticity’: Creating a Social Role for Women in Late Imperial Russia
Author: William G. Wagner
Editor: Heather Coleman
Editor: Mark Steinberg
Abstract: Discussed changing ideals of womanhood in Russian Orthodox writing between the 1840s-1917 in the context of the changing social and economic circumstances of women during this period.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Title: Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russian Culture

Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Russia: The Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod (Book Section)
Title: Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Russia: The Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod
Author: William G. Wagner
Editor: Alessandra Tossi
Editor: Rosslyn Marsh
Abstract: Examined the social and cultural role of Orthodox convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese during the 18th c. and assessed the impact on them of the monastic reforms of Catherine II in 1764
Year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Title: Women in Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825

Fashioning Ideals of Monasticism and Womanhood: The Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1802-1857 (Book Section)
Title: Fashioning Ideals of Monasticism and Womanhood: The Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1802-1857
Author: William G. Wagner
Editor: Susan Rupp
Editor: Gary Marker
Editor: Joan Neuberger
Editor: Marshall Poe
Abstract: Examined the way in which abbesses at the Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exhaltation of the Cross reshaped ideals of both monasticism and womanhood through their reorganization of the convent.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Book Title: Everyday Life in Russian History. Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser

Chronicling Faith: Maksim Dmitriev and the Renaissance of Female Orthodox Monasticism in Late Imperial Russia (An Illustrated Presentation)(Abstract) (Book Section)
Title: Chronicling Faith: Maksim Dmitriev and the Renaissance of Female Orthodox Monasticism in Late Imperial Russia (An Illustrated Presentation)(Abstract)
Author: William G. Wagner
Editor: Jennifer Spock
Editor: Russell Martin
Abstract: Used the photography of Maksim Dmitriev to demonstrate the salient characteristics of the growth of female Orthodox monasticism in 19th and early 20th-c. Russia.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Ohio State University
Book Title: Culture and Identity in Eastern Christian History: Papers of the First Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture

Chronicling Faith: Maksim Dmitriev and the Renaissance of Orthodox Monasticism in Late Imperial Russia (Exhibition)
Title: Chronicling Faith: Maksim Dmitriev and the Renaissance of Orthodox Monasticism in Late Imperial Russia
Curator: William G. Wagner
Abstract: Exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art of the photography of Maksim Dmitriev, chronicling the growth of female Orthodox monasticism in 19th and early 20th-c. Russia.
Year: 2003

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