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This groundbreaking volume opens a new window on both modern and traditional Chinese literature, history and popular culture, demonstrating how a new style of reading brings us-the modern reader-closer to understanding how Chinese citizens perceived their world and what their writings reveal about the culture that produced them. Following the pioneering work of Professor Glen Dudbridge, this book brings together eight studies that develop a new style of reading Chinese sources by exploring the dynamics of discourse across open boundaries: those of fiction and history, literary and non-literary sources, official and vernacular culture, prose and poetry, records past and present, lost and extant, vernacular and classical, traditional and modern. Each chapter discusses how authors, editors and publishers use representation, editing and selection as means of self-fashioning and political propaganda.
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THE RUSSIAN-ORTHODOX TRADITION AND MODERNITY NUMEN BOOK SERIES STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS edited by W.J. HANEGRAAFF advisory board P. Antes, M. Despland, RI.J. Hackett, M. Abumalham Mas, A.W. Geertz, G. ter Haar, G.L. Lease, M.N. Getui, I.S. Gilhus, P. Morris, J.K. Olupona, E. Thomassen, A. Tsukimoto, A.T. Wasim VOLUME C THE RUSSIANORTHODOX TRADITION AND MODERNITY BY ANDREAS E. BUSS BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2003 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Cover photo: Church of the Nativity of the Virgin at the Far Caves in the Kiev-Petchersk Lavra complex, Kiev, Ukraine. Photo by Ivo Romein. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buss, Andreas E. The Russian–Orthodox tradition and modernity / by Andreas E. Buss. p. cm. — (Studies in the history of religions, ISSN 0169-8834 ; v. 100) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 9004133240 (alk.paper) LC Control Number: 2003055870 ISSN 0169-8834 ISBN 90 04 13324 0 © Copyright 2003 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands Uxori et filiae This page intentionally left blank TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ........................................................................................ xi Abbreviations .............................................................................. xii Introduction: Traditional Societies and ModernityApproaches to the Study of Foreign Cultures............................ xiii PART ONE: BETWEEN TWO ALTERNATIVES CHAPTER ONE ..................................... 3 MAX WEBER AND LEO TOLSTOY ON SCIENCE AND CULTURE Introduction ........................................................................ The History of Science as a Search for Meaning ........... The End of an Epoch ....................................................... Weber’s Turn to Russia .................................................... Political Perspectives ......................................................... Russian Christianity .......................................................... Leo Tolstoy ....................................................................... The Two Alternatives ....................................................... Conclusion ...........................................................