Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include The Fall of the Romanovs; Voices of Revolution, 1917; and Proletarian Imagination: History, Religion, and the Sacred in Russia.Heather J. Coleman is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She is author of Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905–1929 (IUP, 2005).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rethinking Religion in Modern Russian Culture Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman1. Miraculous Healings Christine D. Worobec2. Transforming Solovki: Pilgrim Narratives, Modernization, and Late Imperial Monastic LifeRoy R. Robson3. Scripting the Gaze: Liturgy, Homilies, and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Late Imperial RussiaVera Shevzov4. Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred NarrativeNadieszda Kizenko5. "Orthodox Domesticity": Creating a Social Role for WomenWilliam G. Wagner6. Profane Narratives about a Holy Sacrament: Marriage and Divorce in Late Imperial RussiaGregory L. Freeze7. Arbiters of the Free Conscience: State, Religion, and the Problem of Confessional Transfer after 1905Paul W. Werth8. Tales of Violence against Religious Dissidents in the Orthodox VillageHeather J. Coleman9. Prayer and the Politics of Place: Molokan Church Building, Tsarist Law, and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial RussiaNicholas B. Breyfogle10. Divining the Secular in the Yiddish Popular PressSarah Abrevaya Stein11. Revolutionary Rabbis: Hasidic Legend and the Hero of WordsGabriella Safran12. "A Path of Thorns": The Spiritual Wounds and Wandering of Worker-PoetsMark D. Steinberg13. A New Spirituality: The Confluence of Nietzsche and Orthodoxy in Russian Religious ThoughtBernice Glatzer Rosenthal14. Malevich's Mystic Signs: From Iconoclasm to New TheologyAlexei Kurbanovsky15. The Theology of Culture in Late Imperial RussiaPaul ValliereFurther ReadingList of ContributorsIndex

". . . certainly recommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us.November 6, 2008"—Brittany Shoot, Feminist Review". . . an important contribution to the history of, mainly, Orthodox popular religiosity and Orthodox Christian spirituality of modern Russian and Ukraine.Vol. 81.1, March 2009"—Martin A. Miller, Duke University"In summary, this is an excellent collection of illuminating essays by noted scholars in their fields, finely written and thoughtfully conceived, which should be read by anyone interested in religious life in late imperial Russia.Vol. 53.3 Fall 2009"—Michael Pesenson, University of Texas, Austin