The tapestry of Russian Christianity
Subtitle: studies in history and culture
By: edited by Nickolas Lupinin, Donald Ostrowski, and Jennifer B. Spock
Contributors: Ohio State University. Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures; Ohio State University. Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
Series: Ohio Slavic papers -- vol. 10; Eastern Christian studies -- vol. 2; Ohio Slavic papers -- v. 10.; Ohio Slavic papers -- v. 2.
Publisher: Published by the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures with the assistance of the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, The Ohio State University
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: History; Church history; Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
Notes: At head of title: The Ohio State University, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures & Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Jennifer B. Spock; title: Introduction : Christianity east and west  -- Nickolas Lupinin and Donald Ostrowski; title: Glossary --; title: Chronology of the Russian Orthodox Church (10th century to 1917) --; title: Vladimir's conversion to Christianity : divine providence and the taking of Kherson  -- David K. Prestel; title: Politics and hierarchy in the early Rusʹ Church : Antonii, a 13th-century archbishop of Novgorod  -- George P. Majeska; title: Another look at the solid iconostasis in the Russian Orthodox Church  -- Robert M. Arida; title: Round up the usuals and a few others : glimpses into the knowledge, role, and use of Church Fathers in Rusʹ and Russian monasticism, late 11th to early 16th centuries  -- David M. Goldfrank; title: The Moscow councils of 1447 to 1589 and the conciliar period in Russian Orthodox Church history  -- Donald Ostrowski; title: Cultural diversity, imperial strategies, and the issue of faith : religious toleration in early modern Russia in comparative perspective  -- Maria Salomon Arel; title: Praying for the dead in Muscovy : kinship awareness and Orthodox belief in the commemorations of Muscovite royalty  -- Russell E. Martin; title: Northern Russian monastic culture  -- Jennifer B. Spock; title: Between forgiveness and indulgence : funerary prayers of absolution in Russia  -- Nikolaos Chrissidis; title: Old Believer communities : ideals and structures  -- Robert O. Crummey; title: The tradition of elders (startsy) in 19th-century Russia  -- Nickolas Lupinin; title: Russian Orthodoxy and women's spirituality in Imperial Russia  -- Christine D. Worobec; title: Rediscovering the Orthodox past : the microhistorical approach to religious practice in Imperial Russia -- Gregory L. Freeze.