Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Chronology
Introduction
Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene
Part I: Destabilizing Dichotomies
1. Old and New, High and Low: Straw Horsemen of Russian Orthodoxy
Laura Engelstein
2. Two Cultures, One Throne Room: Secular Courtiers and Orthodox Culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow Kremlin
Daniel Rowland
3. Letting the People into Church: Reflections on Orthodoxy and Community in Late Imperial Russia
Vera Shevzov
Part II: Imagining the Sacred
4. From Corpse to Cult in Early Modern Russia
Eve Levin
5. Protectors of Women and the Lower Orders: Constructing Sainthood in Modern Russia
Nadieszda Kizenko
Part III: Encountering the Sacred
6. Till the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Russian Historical Experience Before 1500
Michael S. Flier
7. Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and Practice
Isolde Thyrêt
Part IV: Living Orthodoxy
8. Quotidian Orthodoxy: Domestic Life in Early Modern Russia
Daniel H. Kaiser
9. God of Our Mothers: Reflections on Lay Female Spirituality in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia
Gary Marker
10. Paradoxes of Piety: The Nizhegorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807–1935
William G. Wagner
11. Orthodoxy as Ascription (and Beyond): Religious Identity on the Edges of the Orthodox Community, 1740–1917
Paul W. Werth
Epilogue: A View from the West
Thomas N. Tentler
Annotated Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Valerie A. Kivelson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century (1997).
Robert H. Greene is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.
“Orthodox Russia resituates the study of Russian Orthodox culture
within the history of lived experience—something that scholars
would not have attempted a generation ago. With essays by some of
the finest historians working on Russian Orthodox culture, the book
demonstrates how the field has become an ever more integral part of
wider cultural studies.”—Stephen K. Batalden, Arizona State
University
“Although the editors also claim the authority of the archives,
only one essay rests extensively on new documents. Nevertheless,
each of these works is filled with a wealth of interesting
information and insight, even the epilogue, which may teach readers
more about the Western church than the Eastern. Despite footnotes
intended to make them accessible to non-specialists, these essays,
both in style and content, are extremely academic, and the
bibliography alone makes the book a valuable scholarly asset.”—E.A.
Cole Choice
“The series of essays in this book are written by some of the best
scholars in the field of Russian religion and culture.”—Ellen
Gvosdev Journal of Church and State
“This volume breaks fresh ground in the study of Orthodoxy in
Russia. In fact, Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene’s
compilation provides a good barometer on the study of Russian
Orthodoxy in the American academy. Fortunately, the news is
good—these chapters show great nuance and depth.”—Roy R. Robson
Slavic Review
“This collection of essays edited by Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert
H. Greene adds to the growing literature on Russian religious life,
with a particularly welcome focus on the pre-revolutionary phase
from the mid-fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.”—Gregory
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“The stimulating essays in this book should give folklorists food
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“This excellent collection provides both generalist and specialized
essays about revelatory aspects of Russian Orthodoxy. . . . Using a
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past thousand years.”—Michael Wolfe Religious Studies Review
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