Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead 13
7. Folk Orthodoxy: Popular Religion in Contemporary Ukraine 46
8. The Miracle as Sign and Proof: ‘Miraculous Semiotics’ in the Medieval and Early Modern Ukrainian Mentality 76
9. Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Russian Orthodoxy: Sin and Virtue in Cultural Context 100
10. The Christian Sources of the Cult of St Paraskeva 126
11. Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great 146
12. Letters from Heaven: An Encounter between the ‘National Movement’ and ‘Popular Culture’ 165
13. For the Beauty of God’s House: Notes on Icon Vestments and Decorations in the Ruthenian Church 201
14. ‘Social’ Elements in Ukrainian Icons of the Last Judgment through the Eighteenth Century 235
15. Between ‘Popular’ and ‘Official’: Akafisty Hymns and Marian Icons in Late Imperial Russia 251
16. Contributors 279