Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice ed. by Sonja Luehrmann†

Paert, Irina

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“…It engages all the senses, calling the participant into intimate communion with God and human beings, often through materials like icons, water, relics, the eucharistic bread and wine, bells, and incense. 47 In the case of sacred vessels, in particular, the combination of fear, respect, and awe that the objects elicited in the defendants also led them to form the conviction, whether vague or firm, that such objects should not be touched by lay people like themselves. As baptized Orthodox, they would likely have attended church at least once a year until 1917, where they would have become familiar with the iconostasis that separated the lay people from the clerics.…”

Section: Rethinking Religion and Identity In Revolutionary Russiamentioning

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“I am a Sincere Believer”: Rethinking Religiosity and Identity in the Early Soviet Union

Silano

2023

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This article challenge scholars of religion in the early Soviet Union specifically, and scholars of early Soviet history more generally, to reconsider the ways in which we have conceived of religiosity and Soviet identity in the early years of the USSR. It argues that there was a significant subset of people who considered themselves to be both religious and Soviet in these years, in which what it meant to be both was still not clearly defined. The article draws on archival interrogation records and trial testimonies from the 1922 “Trial of the Fifty-Four” in which thirty-two laymen were charged with counterrevolutionary activity. We have the unique opportunity of hearing the voices of believers from various educational, social, and class backgrounds as they describe what they think it means to be religious and Soviet. The sources thus not only contribute to our understanding of early-Soviet religiosity, but also of early-Soviet identity in general.

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Section: Rethinking Religion and Identity In Revolutionary Russiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“I am a Sincere Believer”: Rethinking Religiosity and Identity in the Early Soviet Union

Silano

2023

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Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice ed. by Sonja Luehrmann†

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“I am a Sincere Believer”: Rethinking Religiosity and Identity in the Early Soviet Union

“I am a Sincere Believer”: Rethinking Religiosity and Identity in the Early Soviet Union

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