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Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia

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Description for Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia Paperback. Examines religious narratives, beliefs, and practices in late Imperial Russia Editor(s): Steinberg, Mark D.; Coleman, Heather J. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253218506
SKU
V9780253218506
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About Steinberg
Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include The Fall of the Romanovs; Voices of Revolution, 1917; and Proletarian Imagination: History, Religion, and the Sacred in Russia. Heather J. Coleman is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History in the Department of History and Classics at the University ... Read more

Reviews for Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia
. . . certainly recommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us.November 6, 2008
Brittany Shoot
Feminist Review
. . . an important contribution to the history of, mainly, Orthodox popular religiosity and Orthodox Christian spirituality of modern Russian and Ukraine.Vol. 81.1, March 2009
Martin A. Miller
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