Orthodoxy on the Line Russian Orthodox by Aram G. Sarkisian HARDBACK

New York University Press

Working-class immigration, religion, and labor history in the United States\n At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants from the borderlands of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires built a transnational church in North America. The community that church leaders called American Orthodox Rus' was created by and for working people, and transformed believers' identities as Eastern European migrants, as Orthodox Christians, and as American workers.\n Given how strongly the Russian Orthodox Christian community was tied to working class industrial life, this book makes the case that we cannot understand the scope of working class and immigrant religion in the United States without understanding American Orthodox Rus'. The work Russian Orthodox immigrants did in the\n\nOrthodoxy on the Line\nRussian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail t;