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... a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution.... The translation is superb."e; -Steven Hoch... one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village.... a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry."e; -Samuel C. RamerVillage Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, Semyonova's ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.

This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. Rolling Away the Stone focuses on her long-reaching legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that threatens religious belief and practice.

How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization, and the meaning of the Holocaust for those who have never known survivors. Magid presents Jewish Renewal as a movement that takes this radical cultural transition seriously in its strivings for a new era in Jewish thought and practice.

Traces the way in which the altered view of the End shaped the foreign missions movement, the social gospel, and ecumenical endeavour. This book, in chronicling changing views of the last things, also traces the emergence of some of the central dynamics - and discontents - of mainstream Protestantism in the twentieth century.

Separation as a strategy to strengthen religious community

Early American Methodists described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. This book explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. It exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life.

Exploring themes of work and labour in everyday life, this work offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. It traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining.

Explores how Native Americans influenced the Christianity of their colonisers.

Among the deservedly well-known works of art produced by the Shakers are many religious drawings and paintings produced under inspiration by members of the community. This work explores this aspect of Shaker visual culture.

By examining wills and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways religious values and social arrangements shaped their lives. It takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland.

Examines the Ramakrishna movement, the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in America. A history of the oldest form of Hinduism in America, this book sheds light on the progress and adaptation of Eastern spirituality in the West.

" -The Journal of American HistoryJarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.

"This is an amazing study, a memoir which provides insight intofamily abuse in 18th century America.... a significant volume which enhances ourknowledge of social and religious life in New England. It is also a movingcontribution to the literature of spirituality." -- Review andExpositor"Students of American culture are indebted to AnnTaves for editing this fascinating and revealing document and for providing it withfull annotation and an illuminating introduction." -- American StudiesInternational"This is above all an eminently teachable text, which raises important issues in the history of religion, women, and the family andabout the place of violence in American life." -- New EnglandQuarterly..". stimulating, enlightening, and provocative..." -- Journal of Ecumenical StudiesAbigail Abbot Bailey wasa devout 18th-century Congregationalist woman whose husband abused her, committedadultery with their female servants, and practiced incest with one of theirdaughters. This new, fully annotated edition of her memoirs, featuring a detailedintroduction, offers a thoughtful analysis of the role of religion amidst the trialsof the author's everyday life.

A fascinating account of the birth and transformation of a New Age religious movement.

From the parlor organ inside to the stained glass and Gothic arches outside, the ideal Christian Victorian home reflected the flowering of domestic religion in America. This title shows that Protestants and Catholics differed markedly in their understanding of the home as sacred space. It addresses cultural assimilation, and religious antagonism.

An exploration of five ideas that have become particularly powerful catalysts in the theological imaginations of women in many difference communities. It offers a multi-voiced response to the question: 'When women across many traditions are heard speaking theologically, publicly and self-consciously as women, what do they have to say?'.

Examines the creation and the conflict behind the creation of sacred space in America. This book contains essays on places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, DC. It investigates visions of America as a sacred space.

"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." ΓÇöQuaker History"... will stand as one of the most important works in the field." ΓÇöAmerican Historical Review

Offers an introduction to the world of the early Shakers, documenting the contributions to Shaker religion made by women during its first seventy years. This book highlights the ways in which gender can play an important role in the creation of a new religious institution.

The Mexica are known for their sacrificial practices that appear shocking to the world. This book makes sense of these practices. It explores sacrifice as an essential foundation for and an ethical response to existence in the world of the Mexica. It also includes a glossary for readers unfamiliar with the Mexica.

Analyzes the attempt by spiritually restless Americans of the 1840s and 1850s to negotiate a satisfying combination of freedom and authority as they sought a sense of harmony with the universe.

Offers a revisionist reading of American Methodism & challenges some important historical conventions

Contributes to a richer understanding of this diverse, dynamic, and fluid religious world

Contributes to a richer understanding of this diverse, dynamic, and fluid religious world

The biography of a southern lady and her spiritual quest

A meeting of American Protestantism with Asian religious traditions

A watershed event in American religious history

A collection of 11 essays, which examine the Esalen Institute's roots, the place of its beliefs in American religious history, and its influence. It is suitable for those interested in the history of American religion as well as those who regard this place as the epicenter of the human potential movement.