Letters from Heaven : : Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine / / ed. by Andriy Zayarnyuk, John-Paul Himka.

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 contexts of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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