10. Dissidence -- Early diverging theological developments -- The old believers -- Russian sects -- Religious dissenters in the USSR. 2. Epochs -- Christianization -- The Kievan Rus' -- From the Rus' to the Moscow Empire -- The reforms of Peter the Great and the Synodical phase -- The twentieth century -- 3. Christianization and Expansion -- Early Christianity before the "Baptism of the Rus'" -- Christianization -- Shift to the North -- The missionary work of the Russian church -- Emigration and schisms -- 4. Ecclesiastical structures -- The juridical dependence on Constantinople -- Autocephaly and Patriarchy -- The Synodical phase -- The local council of 1917 -- The Russian Orthodox church today -- 5. Church and state -- Byzantine "Symphony" in the Rus' and in the Moscow Empire -- The Russian church and the enlightened state -- The church under communism -- Church and national identity after 1991 -- 6. Theology and religious thought -- The Byzantine legacy -- Western influence -- Philosophy of religion in the nineteenth century -- Theological departures in the twentieth century -- 7. Monasticism -- The Kiev Cave Monastery -- The dispute about monastic property -- The Startsy -- 8. Spirituality and religiosity -- The "Prayer of the Heart" -- Iconic piety -- Religious practice today -- Orthodoxy and identity -- 9. Russian Orthodoxy and the West -- Influence and threat -- Union decrees -- Ecumenical relations -- 10. Dissidence -- Early diverging theological developments -- The old believers -- Russian sects -- Religious dissenters in the USSR.
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