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Russian Orthodoxy on the eve of revolution

Author: Vera Shevzov
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores sacred community, and how it functioned (or sometimes did not) in Russian Orthodoxy before the fateful historic events of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Vera Shevzov
ISBN: 0195154657 9780195154658 9780195335477 0195335473
OCLC Number: 50960855
Notes: "The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize of the American Society of church history."
Description: xiv, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Vera Shevzov.
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Explores sacred community, and how it functioned (or sometimes did not) in Russian Orthodoxy before the fateful historic events of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

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