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Title Sacred stories [electronic resource] : religion and spirituality in modern Russia / edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman.

Imprint Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007.

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Description vii, 420 p. : ill.
Series Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Religion and state -- Russia -- History.
Russia -- Religion.
Russia -- History -- 1801-1917.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-
Coleman, Heather J., 1968-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780253347473 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253218506 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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