Bodies like bright stars : saints and relics in Orthodox Russia

Bodies like bright stars : saints and relics in Orthodox Russia / Robert H. Greene.

"While Russian Orthodox theologians celebrated saints as paragons of virtue and piety whose lives were to be emulated in the search for salvation, ordinary believers routinely sought the assistance of the holy dead for commonplace and earthly matters. The Orthodox faithful were more likely to p...

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Main Author: Greene, Robert H., 1975-2020 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2010]
Series:NIU series in Orthodox Christian studies.
Subjects:
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ > History.
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
1800-1917
Christian saints > Cult > Russia > History > 19th century.
Christian saints > Cult > Soviet Union.
Relics > Russia > History > 19th century.
Relics > Soviet Union > History.
Christian saints > Cult.
Relics.
Reliquienkult
Heiligenverehrung
Volksfrömmigkeit
Religiöses Leben
Russia > Religious life and customs.
Soviet Union > Religious life and customs.
Russia > Church history > 1801-1917.
Soviet Union > Church history.
Russie > Histoire religieuse > 1801-1917.
URSS > Histoire religieuse.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
Russland
Church history.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • In the eye of the beholder: the Russian Orthodox Church and the problem of incorruptibility
  • Going to see the saints: miracles, shrines, and relics
  • Making saints: canonization and community
  • The Revolution and the saints
  • Toppling the saints from their thrones: the Bolshevik exhumation of holy relics
  • Relics in Red Russia: Orthodox responses to the exhumation campaign
  • The passing of the saints?

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