Orthodox Russia
Subtitle: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars
Contributors: Valerie A. Kivelson (Editor); Robert H. Greene (Editor)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780271023496
Subjects: Orthodox Churches; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - Orthodox; Christianity - Orthodox Churches; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Judaism - Orthodox; Church history; History; Orthodox Eastern Church; Russia; Russkaia pravoslavnaia t; Russkaëiìa pravoslavnaëiìa ëtìserkov§
Description: This volume concentrates on the lived religious experience - how Orthodoxy touched the lives of a wide variety of subjects of the Russian state, from clerics awaiting the apocalypse in the 15th century to nuns adapting to the attacks on organized religion under the Soviets.