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Nadieszda Kizenko is Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the University at Albany. She is the author of the prize-winning book A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, numerous articles on Orthodox Christianity including The Feminization of Patriarchy? Women in Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy (winner of Best Article, Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity), and several translations.
Introduction
The Liturgy of Penance and its Books
1: Confession as Encounter with Early Modernity
2: Breaking the Seal
3: Enlightenment and Elite Enforcement
4: A Gendered Experience
5: Discipline for the Masses
6: Going to the People: from the Great Reforms to the 1905 Revolution
7: Confession at a Time of Revolution
Conclusion