Mark D. Steinberg / Heather J. Coleman

Sacred Stories

Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia
Herausgeber: Steinberg, Mark D; Coleman, Heather J

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, marriage and divorce, conversion and tolerance, Jewish folk beliefs, mysticism in Russian art, and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief, spirituality, and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political, social, economic, and cultural life. Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heather J. Coleman, Gregory L. Freeze, Nadieszda Kizenko, Alexei A. Kurbanovsky, Roy R. Robson, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Gabriella Safran, Vera Shevzov, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Mark Steinberg, Paul Valliere, William G. Wagner, Paul W. Werth, and Christine D. Worobec.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780253218506
• ISBN-10: 0253218500
• Artikelnr.: 22481385

Autorenporträt

Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include The Fall of the Romanovs; Voices of Revolution, 1917; and Proletarian Imagination: History, Religion, and the Sacred in Russia. Heather J. Coleman is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She is author of Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929 (IUP, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking Religion in Modern Russian Culture Mark D.
Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman
1. Miraculous Healings Christine D. Worobec
2. Transforming Solovki: Pilgrim Narratives, Modernization, and Late
Imperial Monastic LifeRoy R. Robson
3. Scripting the Gaze: Liturgy, Homilies, and the Kazan Icon of the Mother
of God in Late Imperial RussiaVera Shevzov
4. Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred NarrativeNadieszda
Kizenko
5. "Orthodox Domesticity": Creating a Social Role for WomenWilliam G.
Wagner
6. Profane Narratives about a Holy Sacrament: Marriage and Divorce in Late
Imperial RussiaGregory L. Freeze
7. Arbiters of the Free Conscience: State, Religion, and the Problem of
Confessional Transfer after 1905Paul W. Werth
8. Tales of Violence against Religious Dissidents in the Orthodox
VillageHeather J. Coleman
9. Prayer and the Politics of Place: Molokan Church Building, Tsarist Law,
and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial RussiaNicholas B.
Breyfogle
10. Divining the Secular in the Yiddish Popular PressSarah Abrevaya Stein
11. Revolutionary Rabbis: Hasidic Legend and the Hero of WordsGabriella
Safran
12. "A Path of Thorns": The Spiritual Wounds and Wandering of
Worker-PoetsMark D. Steinberg
13. A New Spirituality: The Confluence of Nietzsche and Orthodoxy in
Russian Religious ThoughtBernice Glatzer Rosenthal
14. Malevich's Mystic Signs: From Iconoclasm to New TheologyAlexei
Kurbanovsky
15. The Theology of Culture in Late Imperial RussiaPaul Valliere
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index