Introduction: Russian History and Russian Orthodoxy -- Orthodoxy in the Sixteenth Century -- The Landholding Class and Its Religious World -- The Church in the Seventeenth Century -- Saints and Miracles in Church Policy -- The Era of Miracles -- The Beginnings of Change -- The Rise of the Sermon -- The Manuscripts of Epifanii Slavmetskii's Sermons
Summary
This study traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period of Russian history. It reconstructs the main events of the age, such as the rise of miracle cults, and demonstrates how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society
Analysis
Christianity
Russia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index
