Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) and the Reform of Russian Women's Monastic Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3717974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brenda Meehan-Waters (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 310 |
| Publication date | 1991-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/131076 |
| OpenAlex | W2312644325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
D espite the title of this article, let me say at the outset that during Filaret's long episcopate (1821-67) there was no reform of monastic communities-in the sense of a major reform-such as the church reforms of Peter the Great in 1721 or Catherine the Great in 1764. In addition, many of the reforms in the communal and spiritual life of monasteries that Filaret advocated were intended for both men's and women's monasteries. Nevertheless, a scholarly work focusing specifically on Filaret and women's monastic communities is multiply warranted: first, because little has been written on women's religious life; second, because certain new forms of religious life peculiar to women, particularly women's religious communities (zhenskie obshchiny), developed in the nineteenth century which Filaret encouraged because of their unusual vitality; and, finally, because the movement toward communal reform in Orthodox religious life had a significant, though understudied, impact on prerevolutionary popular culture.1 When Filaret became archbishop of Moscow in 1821 (rising to metropolitan in 1825), his diocese included seven women's monasteries in the city of Moscow and three outside the city.2 These were old, venerable institutions such as the Alekseevskii convent, founded in 1358, Novodevichii, founded in 1524, and
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| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 1993 - 2020 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |