| Description |
xiv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize of the American Society of church history." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index. |
| Contents |
The people of God -- Competing images of community and laity -- Temple dialectics -- Sacred place and the claim on Orthodox identity -- Chapels -- Symbols of ecclesial antinomies -- Feats -- The setting of sacred time -- Icons -- Miracles, memory, and sacred history -- The message of Mary. |
| Summary |
Explores sacred community, and how it functioned (or sometimes did not) in Russian Orthodoxy before the fateful historic events of the 1917 Russian Revolution. |
| Subject |
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ -- History.
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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ. |
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History. |
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Russia -- Church history -- 1801-1917.
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Russia. |
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Church history. |
| Chronological Term |
1801-1917 |
| Subject |
Laity -- Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ -- History.
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Laity -- Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ. |
| ISBN |
0195154657 alkaline paper |
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