Orthodox Russia: belief and practice under the tsars/

Other Authors: Kivelson, Valerie A., Greene, Robert H.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Old and new, high and low : straw horsemen of Russian Orthodoxy / Laura Engelstein
  • Two cultures, one throne room : secular courtiers and Orthodox culture in the golden hall of the Moscow Kremlin / Daniel Rowland
  • Letting the people into Church : reflections on Orthodoxy and community in late Imperial Russia / Vera Shevzov
  • From corpse to cult in early modern Russia / Eve Levin
  • Protectors of women and the lower orders : constructing sainthood in modern Russia / Nadieszda Kizenko
  • Till the end of time : the Apocalypse in Russian historical experience before 1500 / Michael S. Flier
  • Women and the Orthodox faith in Muscovite Russia : spiritual experience and practice / Isolde Thyrt
  • Quotidian Orthodoxy : domestic life in early modern Russia / Daniel H. Kaiser
  • God of our mothers : reflections on lay female spirituality in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Russia / Gary Marker
  • Paradoxes of piety : the Nizhegorod convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807-1935 / William G. Wagner
  • Orthodoxy as ascription (and beyond) : religious identity on the edges of the Orthodox community, 1740-1917 / Paul W. Werth
  • Epilogue: A view from the West / Thomas N. Tentler.