True Heirs to a Heroic Russian Past" or "Russians in Name Only

Sitka Creoles as Seen by the Late Nineteenth Century Russian Orthodox Clergy

Bibliographic Data

ID3072040
AuthorsKan (0000-0001-8565-0528, Dartmouth College, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume5
Issue4
Pages12-37
Publication date2020-12-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Frontier Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2500-0225 • E-ISSN: 2500-0225
PublisherLimited Liability Company Scientific Industrial Enterprise - Genesis. Frontier. Science (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.46539/jfs.v5i4.211
OpenAlexW3111049266
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

The paper examines the criticism levelled against the Creoles of Sitka (persons of Russian and Alaska Native descent) by the Russian Orthodox priests who came to minister among them in the late 19th-early 20th century. These clergymen accused their parishioners not only of immorality but also of not being truly Russian, as far as their language and culture were concerned. By focusing on this criticism, the paper explores the symbolic significance of Alaska's Russian colonial and missionary history and its legacy in the conservative nationalist ideology of the Russian Orthodox clergy. Particular attention is paid to the causes to which this clergy attributed the decline of the Russian culture and devotion to Orthodoxy among the Creole population of this frontier American/Alaskan town

Ancient history · Art · Colonialism · Commonwealth · Creole language · Criticism · Ethnology · Frontier · Ideology · Literature · Nationalism · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Population · Protestantism · Russian literature · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Demography · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Philosophy

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