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By John-Paul Himka, Andriy Zayarnyuk
Letters from Heaven positive aspects a world crew of students investigating where and serve as of 'popular' faith in japanese Slavic cultures. The participants research well known non secular practices in Russia and Ukraine from the center a while to the current, contemplating the cultural contexts of dying rituals, miracles, sin and advantage, cults of the saints, and icons. the gathering not just fills a void in spiritual scholarship, but in addition responds to present theoretical demanding situations.
Reflecting seriously at the heuristic price of well known faith and at the notion of pop culture as a rule, Letters from Heaven is characterised via a shift of concentration from church buildings, associations, and theological discourse to the non secular practices themselves and their interconnections with the tradition, mentality, and social buildings of the societies in query. an enormous contribution to the fields of faith and jap Slavic reviews, this quantity demanding situations readers to reconsider previous pieties and to re-examine the functionality of faith.
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Il’inskii, ‘Ocherki Poshekhon’ia,’ Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 10, no. 4 (1894): 88. 17 Quoted and translated in Danforth and Tsiaras, Death Rituals, 48. V. Alpatov, Drevnerusskaia ikonopis’ (Moscow, 1978), icon 52–3. , ‘Pokhoronni zvychai i obriady,’ Etnografichnyi zbirnyk 31–2 (1912): 403–4. In Starokonstantinov and Zaslavl’ districts, Volynia province, several old women specialized in the interpretation of dreams. See Iv. Ben’kovskii, ‘Smert’, pogrebenie i zagrobnaia zhizn’ po poniatiiam i verovaniiu naroda,’ Kievskaia starina 54 (September 1896): 231.
Peasants had absorbed the teachings of the Orthodox Church, interpreting them to fit their life’s circumstances in an attempt to cope with the loss of relatives and community members. Their beliefs were complementary rather than antagonistic to Orthodoxy’s conception of the universe. Easing the burdens of the soul on its journey to eternity through prayer and remembrance services was an important responsibility of the Christian community. The soul’s struggle to fend off demons and cleanse itself of sin created an image in the mind of these Orthodox peasants of an earthly world inhabited by demons and unclean spirits, who periodically visited upon them epidemics and weather that harmed the agricultural economy.
Their world view was permeated with Christian symbols and personages, if not always doctrine. ’ See ‘Living Water’: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (Oxford, 1990), 106. 67 Ukrainian peasants viewed the death of young men and women of marriageable age as particularly tragic. If the individuals died of natural causes, they were not unclean. Nevertheless, their souls had to be placated by combining wedding with funeral ritual and creating the illusion that they had married in the world beyond.