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Scott M. Kenworthy, Assistant Professor |
Scott Kenworthy's teaching interests include Eastern Christianity, the history of Christian thought, and the religions of Russia and Eurasia. His research interests focus on Eastern Orthodoxy in modern Russia.
SCOTT M. KENWORTHY, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Religion
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513.529.4308, 513.529.1774 (fax)
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EDUCATION:
Brandeis University, Ph.D., 2002
St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, M.A., 1996
University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A., 1992; B.A., 1990
EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, Miami University (Oxford, OH), 2004-.
Visiting Professor, University of Bucharest (Romania), spring 2004, spring 2005
Visiting Professor, Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Fall 2003
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Miami University (Oxford, OH), 2001-03.
PUBLICATIONS
For electronic versions of any of my publications, please contact me.
Books:
The Heart of Russia: The Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery under Tsars and Soviets. Book-length study of the role of monastic revivals in Russian Orthodoxy from the eighteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press and Washington, DC: Wilson Center Press, forthcoming 2010
Journal Articles and Book Chapters [Peer-reviewed with *]:
“Abbess Taisiia of Leushino and the Reform of Women’s Monasticism in Early Twentieth-Century Russia,” in Jennifer Spock and Russell Martin (eds), Culture and Identity in Eastern Christian History, OSU Slavic Papers vol. 7 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press), forthcoming 2009.
*“To Save the World or to Renounce It: Modes of Moral Action in Russian Orthodoxy,” in Mark Steinberg and Catherine Wanner (eds), Reclaiming the Sacred: Morality, Community, and Religion after Communism (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2008), pp. 21-54.
*“An Orthodox Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia,” Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe 1 (May 2006) < http://rs.as.wvu.edu/contents1.htm >, pp. 1-29.
“Memory Eternal: The Five Hundred Year Jubilee of St. Sergius of Radonezh,” in Vladimir Tsurikov (ed.), The Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Russian History and Culture, Readings in Russian Religious Culture vol. 3 (Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Seminary Press, 2005), pp. 24-55.
*“The Mobilization of Piety: Monasticism and the Great War in Russia, 1914-1916,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 52 (2004): 388-401.
*“Russian Reformation? The Program for Religious Renovation in the Orthodox Church, 1922-1925,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook: A Publication of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Eastern Orthodox Studies 16/17 (2000-01): 89-130
Conference Proceedings, Review Articles, Encyclopedia Articles
“Monasticism in Russian History,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 10 No. 2 (2009): 307-31
“Beyond the Schism: Restoring Eastern Orthodoxy to the History of Christianity,” Reviews in Religion and Theology 15: 2 (2008): 171-178. [Review article on Michael Angold (ed.), The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 5: Eastern Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2006)]
“Orthodox Christianity,” in Peter N. Sterns (ed.), The Oxford History of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), vol. 5: 534-536.
“Mircea Eliade’s Reinvention of Himself in North America,” in Mapping the Future: International Conference, Iasi, 23-26 March 2005 (Iași: Editura Universitas XXI, 2007), pp. 549-555.
“Clergy,” Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce F. Adams (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2005), vol. 6: 138-146.
“Are Secularization and Dechristianization Inevitable?” in Omul de Cultură în Fața Descreștinării [The Cultured Man in the Face of Dechristianization] (Alba Iulia: Reintregirea, 2005), pp. 405-418; Romanian translation, “Sunt secularizarea și descreștinarea inevitabile?” pp. 419-432.
“Canon Law” Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce F. Adams (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2004), vol. 5: 90-96.
“Monasticism,” Encyclopedia of Russian History, ed. James R. Millar (New York: Macmillan, 2004), vol. 4: 955-957.
“Religion in the Russian Empire: Orthodoxy, Missions, and non-Russians along the Volga,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook: A Publication of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Eastern Orthodox Studies, 18/19 (2002-03): 355-361.
"Pervyi Vserossiiskii s"ezd monashestvuiushchikh v 1909 g." ["The First All-Russian Congress of Monastics in 1909"] in Troitse-Sergieva Lavra v istorii, kul'ture i dukhovnoi zhizni Rossii: Materialy II Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii [ The Trinity-Sergius Lavra in the History, Culture, and Spiritual Life of Russia: Materials of the 2 nd International Conference ] (Moscow, 2002), pp. 166-184.
"Pervyi Vserossiiskii s"ezd monashestvuiushchikh v 1909 g. v Troitse-Sergievoi lavre i monastyrskii vopros v nachale XX v." in II Mezhdunarodnaia konferentsiia: Troitse-Sergieva Lavra v istorii, kul'ture i dukhovnoi zhizni Rossii: Tezisy dokladov (Sergiev Posad, 2000), pp. 43-44.
Book Reviews:
Jennifer Hedda, His Kingdom Come: Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. In Slavic Review 68: 3 (Fall 2009): 694-95.
Andrei Znamenski, editor and translator, Through Orthodox Eyes: Russian Missionary Narratives of Travels to the Dena’ina and Ahtna, 1850s-1930s. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003. In Material Culture 40: 2 (2008): 107-110.
Wallace L. Daniel, The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. In Church History 76: 3 (September 2007): 650-652.
Steven Cassedy, Dostoevsky’s Religion. Stanford University Press, 2005. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75: 2 (June 2007): 461-64.
John D. Basil, Church and State in Late Imperial Russia: Critics of the Synodal System of Church Government (1861-1914). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. In Church History 76: 2 (June 2007): 436-437.
Zoe Knox, Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia after Communism. London: Routledge/Courzon, 2005. In Religion in Eastern Europe 27: 1 (February 2007): 60-65.
http://www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/BOOK_REVIEW_FEB07.pdf
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74: 1 (March 2006): 224-27.
Chris J. Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917 . DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. In Canadian Slavonic Papers 47: 3-4 (2005): 439-40.
Edward E. Roslof. Red Priests: Renovationism,
Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946 .
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. In
St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 49:
3 (2005): 362-65.
Konstantin Vasil'evich Kharlampovich, Archimandrite
Makarii Glukharev-Founder of the Altai Mission .
Translated with an interpretive essay by James Lawton
Haney. Preface by Paul Valliere. Studies in Russian
History, vol. 6. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press,
2001. In St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly
49: 3 (2005): 359-61.
Elena Vishlenkova, Zabotias' o dushakh poddannykh:
religioznaia politika v Rossii pervoi chetverti XIX
veka . Saratov: Saratov University, 2002.
Slavic Review 64:2 (Summer 2005): 446-7.
Nicholas Fennell, Russians on Athos. Oxford:
Peter Lang, 2001. Russian History/Histoire Russe
30 (2003).
