Valerie A. Kivelson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century (1997). Robert H. Greene is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsChronologyIntroductionValerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. GreenePart I: Destabilizing Dichotomies1. Old and New, High and Low: Straw Horsemen of Russian OrthodoxyLaura Engelstein2. Two Cultures, One Throne Room: Secular Courtiers and Orthodox Culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow KremlinDaniel Rowland3. Letting the People into Church: Reflections on Orthodoxy and Community in Late Imperial RussiaVera ShevzovPart II: Imagining the Sacred4. From Corpse to Cult in Early Modern RussiaEve Levin5. Protectors of Women and the Lower Orders: Constructing Sainthood in Modern RussiaNadieszda KizenkoPart III: Encountering the Sacred6. Till the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Russian Historical Experience Before 1500Michael S. Flier7. Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and PracticeIsolde ThyrêtPart IV: Living Orthodoxy8. Quotidian Orthodoxy: Domestic Life in Early Modern RussiaDaniel H. Kaiser9. God of Our Mothers: Reflections on Lay Female Spirituality in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century RussiaGary Marker10. Paradoxes of Piety: The Nizhegorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807–1935William G. Wagner11. Orthodoxy as Ascription (and Beyond): Religious Identity on the Edges of the Orthodox Community, 1740–1917Paul W. WerthEpilogue: A View from the WestThomas N. TentlerAnnotated BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“Orthodox Russia resituates the study of Russian Orthodox culture within the history of lived experience—something that scholars would not have attempted a generation ago. With essays by some of the finest historians working on Russian Orthodox culture, the book demonstrates how the field has become an ever more integral part of wider cultural studies.”—Stephen K. Batalden, Arizona State University