Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia

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Mark D. Steinberg, Heather J. Coleman
Indiana University Press, Jan 24, 2007 - History - 420 pages

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.

 

Contents

Rethinking Religion in Modern Russian Culture
1
Miraculous Healings
22
Pilgrim Narratives Modernization and Late Imperial Monastic Life
44
Liturgy Homilies and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Late Imperial Russia
61
Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred Narrative
93
Creating a Social Role for Women
119
Marriage and Divorce in Late Imperial Russia
146
State Religion and the Problem of Confessional Transfer after 1905
179
Contents
429
Acknowledgments
431
Rethinking Religion in Modern Russian Culture
1
Miraculous Healings
22
Pilgrim Narratives Modernization and Late Imperial Monastic Life
44
Liturgy Homilies and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Late Imperial Russia
61
Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred Narrative
93
Creating a Social Role for Women
119

Tales of Violence against Religious Dissidents in the Orthodox Village
200
Molokan Church Building Tsarist Law and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia
222
Divining the Secular in the Yiddish Popular Press
253
Hasidic Legend and the Hero of Words
276
The Spiritual Wounds and Wandering of WorkerPoets
304
The Confluence of Nietzsche and Orthodoxy in Russian Religious Thought
330
From Iconoclasm to New Theology
358
The Theology of Culture in Late Imperial Russia
377
Further Reading
397
List of Contributors
403
Index
405
Back Cover
423
Cover
424
Marriage and Divorce in Late Imperial Russia
146
State Religion and the Problem of Confessional Transfer after 1905
179
Tales of Violence against Religious Dissidents in the Orthodox Village
200
Molokan Church Building Tsarist Law and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia
222
Divining the Secular in the Yiddish Popular Press
253
Hasidic Legend and the Hero of Words
276
The Spiritual Wounds and Wandering of WorkerPoets
304
The Confluence of Nietzsche and Orthodoxy in Russian Religious Thought
330
From Iconoclasm to New Theology
358
The Theology of Culture in Late Imperial Russia
377
Further Reading
397
List of Contributors
403
Index
405

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