Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors
Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors

Author: Andrew Donskov

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0776628526

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This book is published in English. Following the completion of his major novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth and embrace the simple rural life of the peasantry. In the persecuted Russian Doukhobor sect, who also rejected militarism and church ritual in favour of finding God in their hearts, he saw a prime example of how it was possible to live his new-found pacifist ideals in everyday life. He was so taken with their lifestyle, calling the Doukhobors “people of the 25th century,” that, in 1898, he decided to help finance their mass emigration to Canada, away from the persecutions of the Russian church and state. Donskov’s expanded study presents an outline of Doukhobor history and beliefs, their harmony with Tolstoy’s lifelong aim of “unity of people”, and the portrayal of Doukhobors in Tolstoy’s writings. This edition features Tolstoy’s complete correspondence with Doukhobor leader Pëtr Vasil’evich Verigin. Three guest essays by prominent Canadian Doukhobors are also included. Supported by a considerable array of source materials, Donskov’s monograph will be of relevance to anyone interested in religious, philosophical, sociological, pacifist, historical, or literary studies.

The Doukhobors
The Doukhobors

Author: George Woodcock

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart ; Ottawa : Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780771098079

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Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians
Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians

Author: John A. Fleming

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780888644183

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With over 100 colour photographs, Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians offers a stunning visual record of the culture and values of these four ethno-cultural groups. Authors John Fleming and Michael Rowan take an interpretive approach to the importance of folk furniture and its intimate ties to people's values and beliefs. Photographer James Chambers beautifully captures both representative and exceptional artifacts, from large furniture items such as storage chests, benches, cradles, and tables, to small kitchen items including spoons, breadboxes, and cookie cutters.

Welcome to Resisterville
Welcome to Resisterville

Author: Kathleen Rodgers

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2014-04-25

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 077482736X

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Between 1965 and 1975, thousands of American migrants traded their established lives for a new beginning in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Some were non-violent resisters who opposed the war in Vietnam. But a larger group was inspired by the ideals of the 1960s counterculture and the New Left and, hoping to flee the restrictive demands of their parents’ world and the pressures of city life, they set out to build a peaceful, egalitarian society in the Canadian wilderness. Even today, their success is evident, as values like equality, sustainability, and creativity still define community life. This fascinating history draws on interviews and archival records to explore the root causes of this bold migration and its role in creating a region that continues to be a hotbed of social and environmental experimentation. Welcome to Resisterville is both an important look at an untold chapter in Canadian history and a compelling story of enduring idealism.

The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions
The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions

Author: James R. Lewis

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2001-03

Total Pages: 951

ISBN-13: 1615927387

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Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging and accessible resource on the historically significant and more obscure, sinister, and bizarre religious groups. Including many entries by scholarly specialists, this volume explains more than 1,000 diverse groups and movements, from such well-known sects as the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate, to obscure groups like Ordo Templi Satanas, Witches International, and the Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus. In addition to an exhaustive index and handy cross-references, the second edition includes over a hundred new topical entries on subjects relevant to understanding sectarian movements, from snake-handling and satanic ritual abuse to brainwashing and exorcism.This book, a must for all libraries and schools, will endure as the first and only point of reference for researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in fringe religious groups.

Plakun Trava
Plakun Trava

Author: Koozma J. Tarasoff

Publisher: Grand Forks, B.C. : MIR Publication Society

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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Negotiated Memory
Negotiated Memory

Author: Julie Rak

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780774810319

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The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canada beginning in 1899, are known primarily to the Canadian public through the sensationalist images of them as nude protestors, anarchists, and religious fanatics - representations largely propagated by government commissions and the Canadian media. In Negotiating Memory, Julie Rak examines the ways in which autobiographical strategies have been employed by the Doukhobors themselves in order to retell and reclaim their own history. Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports, prison diaries, and media accounts, Rak demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both "classic" and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations. More than a historical work, this book brings together recent theories concerning subjectivity, autobiography, and identity, and shows how Doukhobor autobiographical discourse forms a series of ongoing negotiations for identity and collective survival that are sometimes successful and sometimes not. An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will appeal to those interested in autobiography studies as well as to historians, literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian cultural studies.

Cross-cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe
Cross-cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe

Author: John Roy Staples

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780802037244

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In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development.