title: Using Statistical Analysis to Study Life within Orthodox Convents
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metadata.value: Wagner, William
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Barnitt, Kathryn
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T09:50:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T09:50:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Wagner W. G., Barnitt K. Using Statistical Analysis to Study Life within Orthodox Convents. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 329–344.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.201
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10280
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Our previous article demonstrated how the internal reorganization of the Nizhnii Novgorod
  Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross interacted with developments in its external environment
  to transform the convent during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a
  small community composed mainly of older women, predominantly widows, that possessed
  limited means into a large and wealthy community that appealed overwhelmingly to young,
  unmarried, and disproportionately literate women, increasingly from unprivileged backgrounds.
  As our analysis of the trends in the convent’s membership made clear, the decision‒
  and for some women the ability‒to enter the convent was strongly influenced by a woman’s
  particular worldly status, circumstances, prospects, and location. Using statistical methods
  of analysis, the present article demonstrates that, once a woman had joined the community,
  considerations deriving from the community’s internal values and needs outweighed these
  worldly attributes in shaping central aspects of life within the convent. In particular, neither
  social background nor the level of literacy influenced the progress of women through various
  stages of a monastic vocation, nor did social background generally have an impact on the
  assignment of obediences or elevation to positions of leadership. Rather, the assignment of
  obediences and appointment to leadership positions appear to have been based on the degree
  to which a woman’s particular skills and abilities met the community’s internal criteria and
  needs. This transcendence of worldly attributes and values within the community helps to
  explain its appeal during the late imperial period, especially for women from unprivileged social strata, whose actions in turn helped to transform the convent and adapt it to conditions
  of modernizing change.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orthodox monasticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orthodox convents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: female monasticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monastic revival
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Imperial Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nizhnii Novgorod
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: statistical analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Using Statistical Analysis to Study Life within Orthodox Convents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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