The Demonized Double
The Image of Lev Tolstoi in Russian Orthodox Polemics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4215709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pål Kolstø (0000-0002-2745-4198, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-324 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4148595 |
| OpenAlex | W2331024790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
As Pål Kolstø explores in this article, attitudes towards Lev Tolstoi's religious teaching differed wildly among Russian Orthodox believers at the turn of the last century. Some felt that his philosophical notions were remarkably congenial to church doctrine, while others saw Tolstoianism as the radical negation of everything the church stood for. An image often conjured up was Tolstoi as the Antichrist. To some, it was precisely the features that made others see Tolstoi as an Orthodox double that led them to this conclusion: The Antichrist will manage to lead the faithful astray precisely because he will seem to imitate Christ himself. This was the point where the most extreme positions in the Orthodox debate on Tolstoi and Tolstoianism converged. All told, some 85 books and booklets and 260 articles on Tolstoi were published by professed Orthodox authors, many of them laymen. Taken together, they bear witness to the breadth and vitality of Orthodox public opinion
Aesthetics · Art · Doctrine · Linguistics · Literature · Theology · Vitality · Witness · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |