Orthodox Russia Belief and Practice under the Tsars

Name: Orthodox Russia Belief and Practice under the Tsars
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ISBN: 9780271023496

ISBN-10: 027102349X

ISBN-13: 9780271023496

Edition: 2003

Authors: Valerie A. Kivelson, Robert H. Greene

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Book details

List price: $79.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 4/23/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Robert H. Greene is assistant professor of history at the University of Montana and the author of Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia.



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Chronology


Introduction: Orthodox Russia




Destabilizing Dichotomies



Old and New, High and Low: Straw Horsemen of Russian Orthodoxy




Two Cultures, One Throne Room: Secular Courtiers and Orthodox Culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow Kremlin




Letting the People into Church: Reflections on Orthodoxy and Community in Late Imperial Russia




Imagining the Sacred



From Corpse to Cult in Early Modern Russia




Protectors of Women and the Lower Orders: Constructing Sainthood in Modern Russia




Encountering the Sacred



Till the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Russian Historical Experience Before 1500




Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and Practice




Living Orthodoxy



Quotidian Orthodoxy: Domestic Life in Early Modern Russia




God of Our Mothers: Reflections on Lay Female Spirituality in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia




Paradoxes of Piety: The Nizhegorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807-1935




Orthodoxy as Ascription (and Beyond): Religious Identity on the Edges of the Orthodox Community, 1740-1917



Epilogue: A View from the West



Annotated Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index