Sacred stories [electronic resource] : religion and spirituality in modern Russia / edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman.
Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-; Coleman, Heather J., 1968-
2007
BL980.R8 S23 2007eb
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Title Sacred stories [electronic resource] : religion and spirituality in modern Russia / edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman.
ISBN 9780253116703 (electronic bk.)
9780253347473
9780253218506 (pbk.)
Publication Details Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 420 p.) : ill.
Call Number BL980.R8 S23 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 281.9/4709034
Summary 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, [and] conversion and tolerance.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Added Author Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-
Coleman, Heather J., 1968-
Series Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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Introduction: rethinking religion in modern Russian culture / Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman
Miraculous healings / Christine D. Worobec
Transforming Solovki : pilgrim narratives, modernization, and late imperial monastic life / Roy R. Robson
Scripting the gaze : liturgy, homilies, and the Kazan icon of the mother of God in late imperial Russia / Vera Shevzov
Written confessions and the construction of sacred narrative / Nadieszda Kizenko
"Orthodox domesticity" : creating a social role for women / William G. Wagner
Profane narratives about a Holy Sacrament : marriage and divorce in late imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze
Arbiters of the free conscience : state, religion, and the problem of confessional transfer after 1905 / Paul W. Werth
Tales of violence against religious dissidents in the orthodox village / Heather J. Coleman
Prayer and the politics of place : Molokan church building, Tsarist law, and the quest for a public sphere in late imperial Russia / Nicholas B. Breyfogle
Divining the secular in the yiddish popular press / Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Revolutionary rabbis : Hasidic legend and the hero of words / Gabriella Safran
"A path of thorns" : the spiritual wounds and wandering of worker-poets / Mark D. Steinberg
A new spirituality : the confluence of Nietzsche and orthodoxy in Russian religious thought / Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Malevich's mystic signs : from iconoclasm to new theology / Alexei Kurbanovsky
The theology of culture in late imperial Russia / Paul Valliere.

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