Orthodox Russia
Subtitle: belief and practice under the tsars
By: edited by Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780271031491
Subjects: Russisch-Orthodoxe Kerk; Orthodox; Histoire; Histoire religieuse; Christianity; RELIGION; Orthodox Eastern Church; Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ; Church history; Église orthodoxe; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Old and new, high and low : straw horsemen of Russian Orthodoxy  -- Laura Engelstein; title: Two cultures, one throne room : secular courtiers and Orthodox culture in the golden hall of the Moscow Kremlin  -- Daniel Rowland; title: Letting the people into Church : reflections on Orthodoxy and community in late Imperial Russia  -- Vera Shevzov; title: From corpse to cult in early modern Russia  -- Eve Levin; title: Protectors of women and the lower orders : constructing sainthood in modern Russia  -- Nadieszda Kizenko; title: Till the end of time : the Apocalypse in Russian historical experience before 1500  -- Michael S. Flier; title: Women and the Orthodox faith in Muscovite Russia : spiritual experience and practice  -- Isolde Thyrêt; title: Quotidian Orthodoxy : domestic life in early modern Russia  -- Daniel H. Kaiser; title: God of our mothers : reflections on lay female spirituality in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Russia  -- Gary Marker; title: Paradoxes of piety : the Nizhegorod convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807-1935  -- William G. Wagner; title: Orthodoxy as ascription (and beyond) : religious identity on the edges of the Orthodox community, 1740-1917  -- Paul W. Werth -- Epilogue:; title: A view from the West -- Thomas N. Tentler.