Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780195069464 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 288 str.

Paul Bushkovitch

Opis

This book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an 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 skillfully reconstructs these rapid and fundamental changes in the Russian religious experience, but also shows how they were influenced by European religious ideas and how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society usually credited to Peter the Great.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

Author of The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (Cambridge UP, 1980)