Orthodox Russia: belief and practice under the tsars

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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 Thyret 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

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