Religion and Society in Russia
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Religion and Society in Russia by Paul Bushkovitch
Bushkovitch's book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in this important transitional period in Russian history. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Russia saw the gradual decline of monastic spirituality, the rise of miracle cults, and ultimately the birth of a more personal and private faith that stressed morality instead of public rituals. Bushkovitch not only skilfully reconstructs these rapid and fundamental changes in the Russian religious experience, but also shows how they were influenced by Western European religious ideas and how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society usually credited to Peter the Great.
an erudite and fairly readable account of religious life in Muscovy, with some thought-provoking comments on other aspects of cultural historyHis sources are extensive and include unpublished manuscript material * The Heythrop Journal *
a highly scholarly and richly detailed volume, building on previous studies of his selected area and on published histories and manuscript records of churches and chapels, among many other sources ... The book is an intensely detailed one miscroscopically examining the religious nature of a small area. The work is valuable not only as a model study of local religious history, covering many facets, but as an example of developments which had national as well as local relevance. * Ian Machin, University of Dundee, The Historical Association 1996 *
a highly scholarly and richly detailed volume, building on previous studies of his selected area and on published histories and manuscript records of churches and chapels, among many other sources ... The book is an intensely detailed one miscroscopically examining the religious nature of a small area. The work is valuable not only as a model study of local religious history, covering many facets, but as an example of developments which had national as well as local relevance. * Ian Machin, University of Dundee, The Historical Association 1996 *
Author of The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (Cambridge UP, 1980)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195069464 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195069463 |
| Title | Religion and Society in Russia |
| Author | Paul Bushkovitch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1992-08-20 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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