Ivan the fool
Subtitle: Russian folk belief : a cultural history
By: Andrei Sinyavsky ; translated by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov
Contributors: Turnbull, Joanne; Formozov, Nikolai
Series: Glas new Russian writing -- v. 41; Glas (Moscow, Russia) -- 41
Publisher: Glas; Distributed in North America by Northwestern University Press; Distributed in the UK by Inpress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Moscow; [Chicago]; [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9785717200776
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church -- Russia -- History; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- History; Tales -- Russia -- History and criticism; Christian sects -- Russia; Russia -- Religion; Russia -- Church history
Work titles: Ivan--durak.
Description: "This masterly and extremely readable survey covers folk superstitions and customs, house and nature spirits, pagan gods, Christianization, saints, icons, the Schism, Old Believers, religious sects, and the characters and symbolism in Russian fairy tales that could be called the origin of the Russian psyche." --Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: The folktale; title: Paganism and magic in daily life; title: In search of Holy Russia; title: The schism and religious sects