Sacred stories religion and spirituality in modern Russia / [electronic resource] : edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007. - vii, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies . - Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Religion and state--History.--Russia


Russia--Religion.
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