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Letters from Heaven : Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine /
Letters from Heaven features an international group of scholars investigating the place and function of 'popular' religion in Eastern Slavic cultures. The contributors examine popular religious practices in Russia and Ukraine from the middle ages to the present, considering the cultural co...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Death ritual among Russian and Ukrainian peasants : linkages between the living and the dead / Christine D. Worobec
- Folk orthodoxy popular religion in contemporary Ukraine / Natalie Kononenko
- The miracle as sign and proof : 'miraculous semiotics' in the medieval and early modern Ukrainian mentality / Roman Holyk
- Sexuality and gender in early modern Russian orthodoxy : sin and virtue in cultural context / Valerie A. Kivelson
- The Christian sources of the cult of St Paraskeva / Eve Levin
- Popular religion in the time of Peter the Great / Paul Bushkovitch
- Letters from heaven : an encounter between the 'national movement' and 'popular culture' / Andriy Zayarnyuk
- For the beauty of God's house : notes on icon vestments and decorations in the Ruthenian Church / Sophia Senyk
- 'Social' elements in Ukrainian icons of the Last Judgment through the eighteenth century / John-Paul Himka
- Between 'popular' and 'official' : akafisty hymns and Marian icons in late imperial Russia / Vera Shevzov.