Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine

"An exciting and highly stimulating examination of religious culture that is essential reading for everyone interested in Russian history."—Journal of Early Modern History"Innovative, critical, and significant for the historiography of pre-Petrine culture."—Marc Raeff

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religion and Cultural Studies in Russia, Then and Now: Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann Part 1: Society and Cultural Practice "Backwardness" in Russian Peasant Culture: A Theoretical Consideration of Agricultural Practices in the Seventeenth Century: Janet Martin Concepts of Society and Social Identity in Early Modern Russia: Nancy Shields Kollmann Ukrainian Social Tensions before the Khmel'nyts'kyi Uprising: Frank E. Sysyn Part 2: Religion and Belief Court and Ceremony in an Age of Reform: Patriarch Nikon and the Palm Sunday Ritual: Michael S. Flier Supplicatory Prayers as a Source for Popular Religious Culture in Muscovite Russia: Eve Levin Muscovite Miracle Stories as Sources for Gender-Specific Religious Experience: Isolde Thyr\u00eat The Miracle of Martyrdom: Reflections on Early Old Believer Hagiography: Robert O. Crummey Part 3: Image, Identity, and Mentalit\u00e9 Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings, and Silences: Problems of Seventeenth-Century Ruthenian and Muscovite Cultural History: David A. Frick Simon Ushakov-"Historicism" and "Byzantinism": On the Interpretation of Russian Painting from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Engelina S. Smirnova Religious Reform and the Emergence of the Individual in Russian Seventeenth-Century Literature: Victor M. Zhivov Afterword, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Edward L. Keenan Index