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- 9780875804095
- Book Title
- Bodies like Bright Stars : Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia
- Book Series
- Niu Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Religion, History
- Topic
- Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Orthodox, History
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 292 Pages
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While Russian Orthodox theologians celebrated saints as paragons of virtue and piety whose lives were to be emulated in the search for salvation, ordinary believers routinely sought the assistance of the holy dead for commonplace and earthly matters. The Orthodox faithful were more likely to pray to the saints for help in the everyday concerns of health and home than for salvation. Evidence from miracle stories, devotional literature, parish records, diocesan reports, religious newspapers and magazines, and archival documents demonstrates how Orthodox men and women cultivated direct and literally hands-on relationships with their heavenly intercessors by visiting saintly shrines, touching and kissing miracle-working relics, and making pledges to repay the saints for miracles rendered. Exploring patterns of popular devotion to the cult of the saints in both late imperial and early Soviet Russia, Greene argues for an interpretation of Orthodoxy as a proactive faith grounded in the needs and realities of everyday life. Bodies like Bright Stars makes two significant contributions to the fields of Russian history and religious studies. First, it straddles the customary historiographical dividing line of 1917, illustrating how the devotional practices associated with the cult of the saints evolved from the mid-19th century to the end of the first decade of Soviet power. Greene shows that it was the adaptability of the cult of the saints that allowed Orthodoxy to remain relevant amid great political, social, and economic change. Secondly, the book underscores the role of materiality in Russian Orthodox religious practices and emphasizes what anthropologists of religion have described as the sacrality of place. Bodies like Bright Stars, the first book in NIU Press s Orthodox Christian Studies Series, will be of interest to Russian historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion. Written in a clear and lively style, the book is suitable for both survey courses and advanced courses in Russian history and will also appeal to general readers of religious studies. (2009) 292 pp., 18 illus. ISBN 978-0-87580-409-5
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Cornell University Press
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0875804098
ISBN-13
9780875804095
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Book Title
Bodies like Bright Stars : Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Orthodox, History
Publication Year
2009
Book Series
Niu Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Number of Pages
292 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
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Bx577.G74 2009
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"Readable and witty. Integrating Western scholarship with a deep plumbing of archival material, Greene has deftly analyzed the myriad interactions among saints' bones, believers, religious leaders, imperial officials, and Bolsheviks--from the most mundane level to Lenin himself." --Roy R. Robson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, author of Old Believers in Modern Russia and Solovki "...[the Bolsheviks] were not wrong in connecting popular piety with the cult of saints' relics, as Robert Greene demonstrates so eloquently in this fascinating monograph....This is an important book that will be of interest to anyone working on Orthodoxy, on religion and modernity, or on religion and revolutionary states." --Church History , "Readable and witty. Integrating Western scholarship with a deep plumbing of archival material, Greene has deftly analyzed the myriad interactions among saints' bones, believers, religious leaders, imperial officials, and Bolsheviks-from the most mundane level to Lenin himself." -Roy R. Robson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, author of Old Believers in Modern Russia and Solovki, Readable and witty. Integrating Western scholarship with a deep plumbing of archival material, Greene has deftly analyzed the myriad interactions among saints' bones, believers, religious leaders, imperial officials, and Bolsheviks—from the most mundane level to Lenin himself." —Roy R. Robson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, author of Old Believers in Modern Russia and Solovki "...[the Bolsheviks] were not wrong in connecting popular piety with the cult of saints' relics, as Robert Greene demonstrates so eloquently in this fascinating monograph....This is an important book that will be of interest to anyone working on Orthodoxy, on religion and modernity, or on religion and revolutionary states." —Church History , "Readable and witty. Integrating Western scholarship with a deep plumbing of archival material, Greene has deftly analyzed the myriad interactions among saints' bones, believers, religious leaders, imperial officials, and Bolsheviks--from the most mundane level to Lenin himself." --Roy R. Robson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, author of Old Believers in Modern Russia and Solovki
Table of Content
Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. In the Eye of the Beholder: The Russian Orthodox Church and the Problem of Incorruptibility 2. Going to See the Saints: Miracles, Shrines, and Relics 3. Making Saints: Canonization and Community 4. The Revolution and the Saints 5. Toppling the Saints from Their Thrones: The Bolshevik Exhumation of Holy Relics 6. Relics in Red Russia: Orthodox Responses to the Exhumation Campaign Epilogue and Conclusion: The Passing of the Saints? Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-032478
Dewey Decimal
235/.2088281947
Dewey Edition
22
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