The Making of Savage Europe: Religious Difference and The Idea of Eastern Europe

dc.contributor.advisor	Winters, Joseph R
dc.contributor.advisor	Carter, J Kameron
dc.contributor.author	Bielousova, Grazina
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-15T18:44:37Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-15T18:44:37Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.department	Religion
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation argues that the emergence of the idea of Eastern Europe in the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment West could be attributed not only to geopolitical causes but also to the way that the region was figured religiously. Considered against the backdrop of the rise of global racial order, the idea of Eastern Europe is shown to have its origins in Western theological imaginaries which were transmuted into gendered raciality. Through an analysis of the travelogues by Western travelers to the Russian Empire and its European peripheries, this project traces the rise of Euro-Orientalism, which gets inflected as “Asiatic” in Russia, and “Jewish” in the rest of Eastern Europe. Seen through this Euro-Orientalist lens, Russia is figured as the intra-European antithesis to the West, and the remainder of Eastern Europe, as liminal territories.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25294
dc.subject	Religion
dc.subject	East European studies
dc.subject	Russian history
dc.subject	Colonialism
dc.subject	Eastern Europe
dc.subject	History of Travel
dc.subject	Religious Difference
dc.subject	Russian Empire
dc.title	The Making of Savage Europe: Religious Difference and The Idea of Eastern Europe
dc.type	Dissertation

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