Freedom and the Captive Mind
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Freedom and the Captive Mind

Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia

  1. 330 pages
  2. English
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Freedom and the Captive Mind

Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia

About this book

Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations. Father Yakunin believed the survival of the Church depended on its willingness to reform. When he was suspended, Yakunin continued to fight the system, working to expose the persecution of religious believers in the Soviet Union.

After years of exile, Yakunin entered politics. He was criticized by religious authorities, denounced by nationalist politicians, and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. As Wallace L. Daniel demonstrates, the letters Yakunin wrote and his revelations about the relationship between the Church hierarchy and the KGB stand as monuments of courage and the determination to reveal the truth about abuses of power and the authoritarian mindset that predominated in both institutions.

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Table of contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Preface
  3. Chronology
  4. Note on Transliteration
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Beginnings
  7. 2. The Letters
  8. 3. The Awakening
  9. 4. Western Perceptions and Soviet Realities
  10. 5. Gleb Yakunin, Henry Dakin, and the Defense of Religious Liberty
  11. 6. “I Thank God for the Fate He Has Given Me”
  12. 7. The Outcast
  13. 8. Return
  14. 9. Lifting the Cover
  15. 10. Priest and Politician
  16. 11. Hope and the Twisted Road
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index