Tolstoy and the religious culture of his time
Subtitle: a biography of a long conversation, 1845-1887
By: Inessa Medzhibovskaya.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780739125335
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910 -- Religion; Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910 -- Philosophy; Conversion; Europe -- Religion -- 19th century; Russia -- Religion -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Challenges of modernity: the Russian vertigo in personal experience and literature to 1847; title: Portrait of the artist as a young nonbeliever; title: Superfluity and the religion of writing (1852-1863); title: Belief system in War and peace; title: The unfinished battle: the case with the epilogues; title: Tolstoy's path toward conversion (1869-1875); title: The course of Tolstoy's conversion: from philosophy to Christ (1875-1878); title: Turning with Christ; title: Religious experience and forms of accounting; title: Logos and its life in the world; title: The Death of Ivan Il'ich; title: On life and conclusion; title: Appendix I: "On prayer"; title: Appendix II: "Prayer for Granddaughter Sonechka" and "Prayer" (1909).