Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesThis book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period in Russian history. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Russia saw the gradual decline of monastic spirituality, the rise of miracle cults, and ultimately the birth of a more personal and private faith that stressed morality instead of public rituals. Bushkovitch not only skillfully reconstructs these rapid and fundamental changes in the Russian religious experience, but also shows how they were influenced by European religious ideas and how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society usually credited to Peter the Great. |
Contents
Russian History and Russian Orthodoxy | 3 |
1 Orthodoxy in the Sixteenth Century | 10 |
2 The Landholding Class and Its Religious World | 32 |
3 The Church in the Seventeenth Century | 51 |
4 Saints and Miracles in Church Policy | 74 |
5 The Era of Miracles | 100 |
6 The Beginnings of Change | 128 |
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