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Author Kizenko, Nadieszda, 1961- author.

Title Good for the souls : a history of confession in the Russian empire / Nadieszda Kizenko
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) : color illustrations
Series Oxford studies in modern European history
Oxford studies in modern European history.
Contents Confession as encounter with early modernity -- Breaking the seal -- Enlightenment and elite enforcement -- A gendered experience -- Discipline for the masses -- Going to the people: from the great reforms to the 1905 revolution -- Confession at a time of revolution
Summary This text brings Russia into the rich scholarly and popular literature on confession, penance, discipline, and gender in the modern world, and in doing so opens a key window onto church, state, and society
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 7, 2022)
Subject Confession -- Orthodox Eastern Church.
Church and state -- Russia
Church and state
Confession -- Orthodox Eastern Church
SUBJECT Russia -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004154
Subject Russia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191919077
0191919071
9780192650566
0192650564