Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern RussiaMark D. Steinberg, Heather J. Coleman 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. |
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 |
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List of Contributors | 403 |
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