Modern Religion, Modern Race

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...

Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture

Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin.

IN 1698 THE ENGLISH ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTIST Francis Place visited Ireland. Travelling along the east coast, sketching as he went, he arrived at Dublin in early 1699. From a hill to the south-west of the city, he drew a prospect of the cityscape using a camera obscura. In some ways the result was not unlike contemporary prospects of large English cities such as London, York or Norwi...

Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...