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Title Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia : a Source Book on Lived Religion
Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents Introduction: faith and story in imperial Russia / Heather J. Coleman -- The miraculous healing of the mute Sergei Ivanov, 22 February 1833 / Christine D. Worobec -- The miraculous revival and death of princess Anna Fedorovna Golitsyna, 22 may 1834 / Christine D. Worobec -- Monastic incarceration in imperial Russia / A.J. Demoskoff -- Letters to and from Russian Orthodox spiritual elders (startsy) / Irina Paert -- Sermons of the Crimean War / Mara Kozelsky -- The diary of a priest / Laurie Manchester -- "Another voice from the lord": an Orthodox sermon on Christianity, science, and natural disaster / Nicholas Breyfogle -- A Ukrainian priest's son remembers his father's life and ministry / Heather J. Coleman -- Akathist to the most holy birth-giver of god in honor of her miracle-working icon named "Kazan" / Vera Shevzov -- A nineteenth-century life of St. Stefan of Perm (c. 1340-96) / Robert H. Greene -- Written confessions to father John of Kronstadt, 1898-1908 / Nadieszda Kizenko -- An obituary of priest Ioann Mikhailovich Orlovskii / Laurie Manchester -- Not something ordinary, but a great mystery: Old Believer ritual in the late imperial period / Roy R. Robson -- Orthodox petitions for the transfer of the holy relics of St. Stefan of Perm, 1909 / Robert H. Greene -- Dechristianization in holy Rus?: religious observance in Vladimir diocese, 1900-1913 / Gregory L. Freeze -- Petitions to the Holy Synod regarding miracle-working icons / Vera Shevzov -- Missionary priests' reports from Siberia / Aileen Friesen -- Petitions to "brother Ioann" Churikov, 1914 / Page Herrlinger -- Archimandrite Toviia (Tsymbal), prior of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra: memoirs and diaries (selections) / Scott M. Kenworthy -- "From ignorance to truth": a baptist conversion narrative / Heather J. Coleman
Summary From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith, this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers, of clergy and laity, nobles and merchants, workers and peasants, men and women, Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodoxy emerges here as a multidimensional and dynamic faith. Beyond enhancing our understanding of Orthodox Christianity as practiced in Imperial Russia, this thoughtfully edited volume offers broad insights into the relationship between religious narrative and social experience and reveals religion's central place in the formation of world views and narrative traditions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-317) and index
Notes Some materials translated from the Russian
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Subject Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- Russia
SUBJECT Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ fast
Subject Christianity -- Russia
Church history -- Sources.
Christian life -- Russia
Spiritual life -- Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
Sermons, Russian.
Miracles -- Russia
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Spiritual life -- Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
Christian life
Christianity
Church history
Miracles
Sermons, Russian
Russia
Genre/Form Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Coleman, Heather J., 1968-
LC no. 2014001386
ISBN 9780253013187
0253013186