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Department of Comparative Religion 103 Old Manse • Oxford, Ohio 45056
513.529.4300
Dr. Scott Kenworthy

 

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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. Current projects include a book entitled To Renounce the World: Reviving Monasticism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russia.

SCOTT M. KENWORTHY, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Comparative Religion     

Miami University

Oxford, OH 45056

kenwors@muohio.edu

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.

Articles:

“Beyond the Schism: Restoring Eastern Orthodoxy to the History of Christianity,” Reviews in Religion and Theology 15: 2 (2008): 171-178.


"Mircea Eliade's Reinvention of Himself in North America," in Mapping the Future: Permanence and Change (Iasi: Al. I. Cuza University Press), forthcoming

"Orthodoxy and the Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia," Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe 1 (2006)

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"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.

"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 Cultura in Fata Descrestinarii [The Cultured Man in the Face of Dechristianization] (Alba Iulia: Reintregirea, 2005), pp. 405-418; Romanian translation, "Sunt secularizarea si descrestinarea inevitabile?" pp. 419-432.

"The Mobilization of Piety: Monasticism and the Great War in Russia, 1914-1916," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 52 (2004): 388-401 .

"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.

"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.

"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:
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.

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).

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