An important contribution to the fields of religion and Eastern Slavic studies, this volume challenges readers to rethink old pieties and to reconsider the function of religion.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 281.9/47
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-ur---
- ISBN
- 9781442676640 9780802091482
- LCCN
- BX485
- LCCN Item number
- L48 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 277 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00601123 (OCoLC)637134931 (CaOOCEL)418918
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 14
- Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead 24
- Folk Orthodoxy: Popular Religion in Contemporary Ukraine 57
- The Miracle as Sign and Proof: ‘Miraculous Semiotics’ in the Medieval and Early Modern Ukrainian Mentality 87
- Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Russian Orthodoxy: Sin and Virtue in Cultural Context 111
- The Christian Sources of the Cult of St Paraskeva 137
- Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great 157
- Letters from Heaven: An Encounter between the ‘National Movement’ and ‘Popular Culture’ 176
- For the Beauty of God’s House: Notes on Icon Vestments and Decorations in the Ruthenian Church 212
- ‘Social’ Elements in Ukrainian Icons of the Last Judgment through the Eighteenth Century 246
- Between ‘Popular’ and ‘Official’: Akafisty Hymns and Marian Icons in Late Imperial Russia 262
- Contributors 290
