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Letters from Heaven : Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine
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- Summary
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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.
Details
- Creator
- John-Paul Himka, Andriy Zayarnyuk
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442676640, 1442676647
- OCLC
- on1013944188
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead -- Folk Orthodoxy: Popular Religion in Contemporary Ukraine -- The Miracle as Sign and Proof: 'Miraculous Semiotics' in the Medieval and Early Modern Ukrainian Mentality -- Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Russian Orthodoxy: Sin and Virtue in Cultural Context -- The Christian Sources of the Cult of St Paraskeva -- Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great -- Letters from Heaven: An Encounter between the 'National Movement' and 'Popular Culture' -- For the Beauty of God's House: Notes on Icon Vestments and Decorations in the Ruthenian Church -- 'Social' Elements in Ukrainian Icons of the Last Judgment through the Eighteenth Century -- Between 'Popular' and 'Official': Akafisty Hymns and Marian Icons in Late Imperial Russia -- Contributors