Orthodox Russia Belief and Practice under the Tsars

Name: Orthodox Russia Belief and Practice under the Tsars
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ISBN: 9780271023502

ISBN-10: 0271023503

ISBN-13: 9780271023502

Edition: 2003

Authors: Valerie A. Kivelson, Robert H. Greene

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This volume concentrates on the lived religious experience - how Orthodoxy touched the lives of a wide variety of subjects of the Russian state, from clerics awaiting the apocalypse in the 15th century to nuns adapting to the attacks on organized religion under the Soviets.

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
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