James Matthew White

Dados Biográficos

ID8965974
NOMEJames Matthew White
PRENOMESJames Matthew
SOBRENOMEWhite
ASSINATURAWHITE J M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0002-4549-9381
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS73
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES88
TOTAL COMO AUTOR73
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1909
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Confessional Ambiguity in Recent Research on Religious History

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2026

    Studying the question of religious identity, especially on the popular level, is notoriously difficult given the paucity and complexity of the sources, which often focus on the identities ascribed by social and ecclesiastical elites. This is particularly the case in multiconfessional environments, where rigid and inflexible categories of ascribed confessional identity and behaviour may not fully capture processes and practices of syncretism, co-e…

  • What support is needed for preconception health improvement, and by whom? A qualitative study of women's views

    Open AccessMichael P Daly, Ruth Kipping et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2025

    Background Systematic reviews suggest preconception health interventions may be effective in improving maternal and infant outcomes . However, few studies have explored women’s views on the types of support required for preconception health improvement, nor when and to whom this support should be provided. Methods We purposively sampled women aged 18-48 years in the West of England from respondents to a survey, and conducted semi-structured in-de…

  • The Russian Orthodox parish clergy in interwar Estonia

    James Matthew WhiteARTICLEJournal of Baltic Studies2025Referências: 10

  • Orthodox Monasticism in Changing Times

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2024

    The late American scholar William G. Wagner (1950–2021) has posthumously published a monograph dedicated to Orthodox female monasticism in the Russian Empire. At the centre of the work is the Nizhny Novgorod convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, extant in one form or another from the seventeenth century until 1935: thus, Wagner’s scholarship seeks to contribute to the growing historiography on Russian Orthodox monasticism in the imperial period…

  • Dreaming at the End of Empire

    James White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLECultural and Social History2024Referências: 3

    This article examines the dreams of Jakob Vaarask (1862-1936), an Estonian Orthodox teacher and priest who, from 1889 to 1926, lived and worked on the island of Vormsi, for much of that period part of the Russian Empire's Estland province. I intend to show that dreams, rather than random and purely individual manifestations of the subconscious, can be used as historical sources, in Vaarask's case demonstrating the extent to which political propag…

  • Becoming Pastors

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2023

    The American scholar Daniel Scarborough has written a monograph dedicated to the history of the Russian Orthodox clergy in the late imperial regime. This work both encapsulates recent developments in the historiography of the imperial Russian Orthodox Church and contributes fresh archival research, principally using documents held in repositories in Moscow and Tver. His main focus is the mutual aid networks in which the clergy participated. Creat…

  • Colonel V. A. Pashkov

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2021

    The reviewer considers Filipp Nikitin’s new book on Colonal Vasilii A. Pashkov, a Russian Evangelical leader in the 1870s and 1880s. A rich Russian aristocrat and landowner, Pashkov was an unlikely missionary, but his conversion at the hands of the British Lord Radstock in 1874 led to a lifetime of preaching and charity among both social elites and the lowest members of society. Although initially not in conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church,…

  • Navigating an Orthodox conversion

    Trond Ove Tøllefsen, James White et al.ARTICLEScandinavian Journal of History2021Referências: 1

    Over the summer of 1866, the majority of the Swedish-speaking population on the Baltic island of Ruhnu (then part of the Russian Empire’s Livland province) sought conversion from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy. Despite interest from the Russian secular and ecclesiastical authorities, however, the conversions did not take place. The islanders used the threat of conversion to leverage concessions from the Lutheran consistory: once achieved, the c…

  • Borders and Their Myths

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2020

    The reviewer examines a recent anthology on the transformations of the antemurale myth in the borderlands of Eastern Europe during the age of nationalism. Edited by Lilya Berezhnaya and Heide Kein-Kircher, the volume contains thirteen essays by fourteen international authors. After briefly defining the antemurale myth, its most famous version (the antemurale christianitatis), and the ongoing relevance of the subject, the reviewer discusses the st…

  • Letters of Orthodox Priests about the German Occupation of Estonia during the First World War

    Open AccessIrina Paert, James Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2020

    During the invasion of the Baltic provinces between 1915 and 1918, a large swathe of territory and its population fell under German control: this included Orthodox parishes and their priests. The clergy and laity thus had to face many new challenges: the behaviour of occupation forces, material deprivations, and the actions of Lutheran clerical and secular elites in the new context. This article focuses on the response to the advance of the Germa…

  • Sergei Anatol’evich Beloborodov and Iuliia Viktorovna Borovik, Starovery gornozavodskogo Urala

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2020

  • Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Ecclesiastical Authority at the End of the Imperial Regime

    Open AccessJames White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLEThe Russian Review2020

    In 1917/1918, a final effort was made to reform edinoverie , the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which allowed the usage of the anathematised Old Believer ritual. Founded in 1800, edinoverie ’s long 19 th century had given rise to a series of problems intimately connected with issues of ritual, confessional identity, and ecclesiastical authority: increasingly, edinovertsy and churchmen sought reform in order to resolve these problems. In th…

  • Clerical Outsiders

    Open AccessAlexander Palkin, James White et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Ecclesiastical…2020Referências: 2

    Founded in 1800, edinoverie was a missionary mechanism that offered converts from ‘schismatic’ Old Belief the use of their anathematised rituals within the Russian Orthodox Church. However, the edinoverie clergy's distinctive social characteristics and working conditions stymied successful integration into the caste-like clerical estate. These representatives of an alternative form of Orthodoxy chiefly championed by Old Believers therefore remain…

  • Russian Orthodox monasticism in Riga diocese, 1881–1917

    James White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2020Citada por: 2Referências: 13

    This article considers the foundation of four Orthodox monasteries and convents in Riga diocese in the late nineteenth century and how these conceptually and physically transformed diocesan space through borderland rhetoric and the creation of internal and external religious and social networks. Analyzing the foundation of these institutions, their demographic profiles, their role in social outreach, and their function as loci of Orthodox religio…

  • Reimagining the diocese

    Irina Paert, James White et al.ARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2020Referências: 14

    This work was supported by the University of Tartu [grant number PHVUS 18916 ]

  • Family Theories

    James White, James Matthew White et al.BOOKFamily Theories: An Introduction2019

  • Ivan Goncharov and the Imperial Horizons of The Frigate Pallada

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2019

    This review examines Edyta M. Bojanowska’s new book on Ivan Goncharov’s voyage to Japan and his subsequent travelogue, The Frigate Pallada. In 1852, Goncharov set sail for Japan from St Petersburg in the hope of opening up the reclusive Asian nation for Russian trade. Along the way, he visited London, the Cape colony in South Africa, and numerous ports in Southeast Asia. After visiting China, Japan, and Korea, he landed in Ayan, from whence he tr…

  • The Free Sale of Opium’

    Open AccessJames White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2019Citada por: 1

    This article examines discussions of freedom of conscience and other religious liberties in the Orthodox ecclesiastical press between the Great Reforms of the 1860s and the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Avoiding highly influential and well-known religious thinkers, this piece instead focuses on forgotten ordained and lay writers who used their positions in the Church's hierarchy and educational establishments to reach a wide audience. At the …

  • Victoria Smolkin, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2019

  • A Prison Without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism

    James White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2018

    A Prison Without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism." Europe-Asia Studies, 70(1), pp. 135–136

  • Mobilizing the Russian Nation. Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War

    James White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2018

  • Stephen K. Batalden, Russian Bible Wars

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2018

  • Betsy Perabo, Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War

    Open AccessJames Matthew WhiteARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2018

  • Missionary, Reformer, and Old Believer in Revolutionary Russia

    Open AccessJames White, James Matthew WhiteARTICLEJournal of Religious History2018Citada por: 1

    This article examines the life and thought of Andrei (Ukhtomskii), a prominent Orthodox churchman in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. A proponent of ecclesiastical reform, Andrei believed that the Church was unable to instil piety because of an overly close relationship with the state. Basing his opinions on Slavophile philosophy, Andrei campaigned for the restoration of the Russian patriarchate and parish reform that would grant the laity …

  • Religion and Nationalism in Modern Russia; Or the Uses and Abuses of Edinoverie

    James White, James Matthew White et al.ARTICLEThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review2017

    The Orthodox Church in post-Soviet Russia is currently tackling numerous issues. Some of these are modern, like the institution’s relationship with nationalism, while others are centuries-old, like the Old Believer schism. Some have argued that there is one potential solution to both problems: the restoration of edinoverie, a uniate movement founded in 1800 to bring the Old Believers into the Church. In this article, we consider all of the most r…