Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Rethinking Religion in Modern Russian Culture Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman 1 1 Miraculous Healings Christine D.Worobec 22 2 Transforming Solovki: Pilgrim Narratives, Modernization, and Late Imperial Monastic Life Roy R. Robson 44 3 Scripting the Gaze: Liturgy, Homilies, and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Late Imperial Russia Vera Shevzov 61 4 Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred Narrative Nadieszda Kizenko 93 5 “Orthodox Domesticity”: Creating a Social Role for Women William G.Wagner 119 6 Profane Narratives about a Holy Sacrament: Marriage and Divorce in Late Imperial Russia Gregory L. Freeze 146 7 Arbiters of the Free Conscience: State, Religion, and the Problem of Confessional Transfer after 1905 Paul W.Werth 179 8 Tales of Violence against Religious Dissidents in the OrthodoxVillage Heather J. Coleman 200 9 Prayer and the Politics of Place: Molokan Church Building,Tsarist Law, and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia Nicholas B. Breyfogle 222 10 Divining the Secular in theYiddish Popular Press Sarah Abrevaya Stein 253 11 Revolutionary Rabbis: Hasidic Legend and the Hero of Words Gabriella Safran 276 12 “A Path of Thorns”: The Spiritual Wounds and Wandering of Worker-Poets Mark D. Steinberg 304 13 A New Spirituality: The Confluence of Nietzsche and Orthodoxy in Russian Religious Thought Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal 330 14 Malevich’s Mystic Signs: From Iconoclasm to New Theology Alexei Kurbanovsky 358 15 The Theology of Culture in Late Imperial Russia Paul Valliere 377 Further Reading 397 List of Contributors 403 Index 405 vi Contents ...