Sacred stories
Subtitle: religion and spirituality in modern Russia
By: edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman.
Contributors: Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-; Coleman, Heather J., 1968-
Series: Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780253347473; 9780253218506
Subjects: Religion and state -- Russia -- History; Russia -- Religion; Russia -- History -- 1801-1917
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: rethinking religion in modern Russian culture / Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman; title: Miraculous healings / Christine D. Worobec; title: Transforming Solovki : pilgrim narratives, modernization, and late imperial monastic life / Roy R. Robson; title: Scripting the gaze : liturgy, homilies, and the Kazan icon of the mother of God in late imperial Russia / Vera Shevzov; title: Written confessions and the construction of sacred narrative / Nadieszda Kizenko; title: "Orthodox domesticity" : creating a social role for women / William G. Wagner; title: Profane narratives about a Holy Sacrament : marriage and divorce in late imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze; title: Arbiters of the free conscience : state, religion, and the problem of confessional transfer after 1905 / Paul W. Werth; title: Tales of violence against religious dissidents in the orthodox village / Heather J. Coleman; title: 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; title: Divining the secular in the yiddish popular press / Sarah Abrevaya Stein; title: Revolutionary rabbis : Hasidic legend and the hero of words / Gabriella Safran; title: "A path of thorns" : the spiritual wounds and wandering of worker-poets / Mark D. Steinberg; title: A new spirituality : the confluence of Nietzsche and orthodoxy in Russian religious thought / Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal; title: Malevich's mystic signs : from iconoclasm to new theology / Alexei Kurbanovsky; title: The theology of culture in late imperial Russia / Paul Valliere.