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Letters from Heaven : Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.