:<i>Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine</i>

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Table of Contents Introduction: Religion and Cultural Studies in Russia, Then and Now: Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann Part 1: Society and Cultural Practice Backwardness in Russian Peasant Culture: A Theoretical Consideration of Agricultural Practices in the Seventeenth Century: Janet Martin Concepts of Society and Social Identity in Early Modern Russia: Nancy Shields Kollmann Ukrainian Social Tensions before the Khmel'nyts'kyi Uprising: Frank E. Sysyn Part 2: Religion and Belief Court and Ceremony in an Age of Reform: Patriarch Nikon and the Palm Sunday Ritual: Michael S. Flier Supplicatory Prayers as a Source for Popular Religious Culture in Muscovite Russia: Eve Levin Muscovite Miracle Stories as Sources for Gender-Specific Religious Experience: Isolde Thyr\u00eat The Miracle of Martyrdom: Reflections on Early Old Believer Hagiography: Robert O. Crummey Part 3: Image, Identity, and Mentalit\u00e9 Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings, and Silences: Problems of Seventeenth-Century Ruthenian and Muscovite Cultural History: David A. Frick Simon Ushakov-Historicism and Byzantinism: On the Interpretation of Russian Painting from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Engelina S. Smirnova Religious Reform and the Emergence of the Individual in Russian Seventeenth-Century Literature: Victor M. Zhivov Afterword, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Edward L. Keenan Index