title: A quantitative study of the transformation of female orthodox monasticism in imperial Russia
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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: 2018-01-24T11:52:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T11:52:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.value: Wagner W. G., Barnitt K. A quantitative study of the transformation of female orthodox monasticism in imperial Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 4, pp. 751–776.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8915
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metadata.value: During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female Orthodox monasticism in Russia was
  strikingly transformed. Not only did female communities grow rapidly in number and membership,
  but their demographic characteristics, geographic location, predominant organizational structure, social
  role, and, often, relative wealth also changed dramatically. New entrants were younger, far fewer had been
  married, their social background altered markedly, literacy levels rose substantially, communities became
  predominantly rural rather than urban, most were organized communally rather than idiorrhythmically,
  a higher percentage possessed substantial wealth, and most now provided a range of social services. But
  because of the nature of available sources, much of the dynamic of this transformation remains opaque.
  In particular, few members of women’s monastic communities have left written sources that could provide
  insight into their motives, religious sensibilities, self-understandings, and experiences. Using the
  Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross as an example, this article demonstrates how a
  quantitative analysis of the membership reports submitted annually by Orthodox monastic communities
  to local diocesan authorities and to the Holy Synod after the early nineteenth century can be used to
  compensate for the limited availability of qualitative sources. Such an analysis reveals how the interaction
  between the internal reorganization of the convent on a communal basis and developments in its external
  environment transformed the convent from a small community of limited means composed mainly of
  older, predominantly widowed and largely illiterate women into a large and wealthy community that appealed
  overwhelmingly to young, unmarried, and disproportionately literate women, increasingly from
  the unprivileged urban and especially rural strata of society. Refs 55. Tables 11. Figs 2.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 4
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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: quantitative analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A quantitative study of the transformation of female orthodox monasticism in imperial Russia
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metadata.value: Article
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