Sacred stories : religion and spirituality in modern Russia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-, Coleman, Heather J., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
Series:Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rethinking religion in modern Russian culture / Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman
  • Miraculous healings / Christine D. Worobec
  • Transforming Solovki : pilgrim narratives, modernization, and late imperial monastic life / Roy R. Robson
  • Scripting the gaze : liturgy, homilies, and the Kazan icon of the mother of God in late imperial Russia / Vera Shevzov
  • Written confessions and the construction of sacred narrative / Nadieszda Kizenko
  • "Orthodox domesticity" : creating a social role for women / William G. Wagner
  • Profane narratives about a Holy Sacrament : marriage and divorce in late imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze
  • Arbiters of the free conscience : state, religion, and the problem of confessional transfer after 1905 / Paul W. Werth
  • Tales of violence against religious dissidents in the orthodox village / Heather J. Coleman
  • Prayer and the politics of place : Molokan church building, Tsarist law, and the quest for a public sphere in late imperial Russia / Nicholas B. Breyfogle
  • Divining the secular in the Yiddish popular press / Sarah Abrevaya Stein
  • Revolutionary rabbis : Hasidic legend and the hero of words / Gabriella Safran
  • "A path of thorns" : the spiritual wounds and wandering of worker-poets / Mark D. Steinberg
  • A new spirituality : the confluence of Nietzsche and orthodoxy in Russian religious thought / Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
  • Malevich's mystic signs : from iconoclasm to new theology / Alexei Kurbanovsky
  • The theology of culture in late imperial Russia / Paul Valliere.