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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Letters from Heaven
:
Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine
Enthält:
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
Anmerkungen:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publishers Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
In English
Beschreibung:
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.