"The 1917 revolutions that gave birth to Soviet Russia had a profound impact on Russian religious life. Social and political attitudes toward religion in general and toward the Russian Orthodox Church in particular remained in turmoil for nearly thirty years. During that time of…
The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in this engaging and literate study. The author traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at So…
Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. Along the way she discusses su…
This book examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the evolution of identity politics. Bridging African and Arab histories and giving a cross-national and cross-regional analysis of movements of religious reform, nationalism and anti-colonialism, its wide geog…
