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Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia

By Mark D. Steinberg , Heather J. Coleman

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780253218506, 0253218500
LCC
BL980.R8 S23 2007
Open Library ID
OL10228355M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5982398 bytes)
Series
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
Pages
434\434
Topic
Religion
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, marriage and divorce, conversion and tolerance, Jewish folk beliefs, mysticism in Russian art, and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief, spirituality, and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political, social, economic, and cultural life. Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heather J. Coleman, Gregory L. Freeze, Nadieszda Kizenko, Alexei A. Kurbanovsky, Roy R. Robson, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Gabriella Safran, Vera Shevzov, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Mark Steinberg, Paul Valliere, William G. Wagner, Paul W. Werth, and Christine D. Worobec.

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