{"product_id":"public-image-of-eastern-orthodoxy-heather-l-bailey-9781501749513","title":"Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy: France and Russia, 1848-1870","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848-1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), \u003ci\u003eThe Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e explores the circumstances under which westerners, concerned about the fate of the papacy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russian imperial power, began to conflate the Russian Orthodox Church with the state and to portray the Church as the political tool of despotic tsars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Heather L. Bailey demonstrates, in response to this reductionist view, Russian Orthodox publicists launched a public relations campaign in the West, especially in France, in the 1850s and 1860s. The linchpin of their campaign was the building of the impressive Saint Alexander Nevsky Church in Paris, consecrated in 1861. Bailey posits that, as the embodiment of the belief that Russia had a great historical purpose inextricably tied to Orthodoxy, the Paris church both reflected and contributed to the rise of religious nationalism in Russia that followed the Crimean War. At the same time, the confrontation with westerners' negative ideas about the Eastern Church fueled a reformist spirit in Russia while contributing to a better understanding of Eastern Orthodoxy in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather L. Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150174951X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501749513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Heather L. Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941472960767,"sku":"9781501749513","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4a9852bb-6085-4c29-82b3-ddb4c741a714.jpg?v=1681453122","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/public-image-of-eastern-orthodoxy-heather-l-bailey-9781501749513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}