The Old Faith and the Russian Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Old Faith and the Russian Land write by Douglas Rogers. This book was released on 2010-12-15. The Old Faith and the Russian Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative. Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town and some of the major transformations of Russian history, showing how townspeople have responded to a long series of attempts to change them and their communities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and the marketization, religious revival, and ongoing political transformations of post-Soviet times. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival and manuscript sources, Rogers argues that religious, political, and economic practice are overlapping arenas in which the people of Sepych have striven to be ethical—in relation to labor and money, food and drink, prayers and rituals, religious books and manuscripts, and the surrounding material landscape. He tracks the ways in which ethical sensibilities—about work and prayer, hierarchy and inequality, gender and generation—have shifted and recombined over time. Rogers concludes that certain expectations about how to be an ethical person have continued to orient townspeople in Sepych over the course of nearly three centuries for specific, identifiable, and often unexpected reasons. Throughout, he demonstrates what a historical and ethnographic study of ethics might look like and uses this approach to ask new questions of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history.
Can the Old Faith Live with the New?
Can the Old Faith Live with the New? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can the Old Faith Live with the New? write by George Matheson. This book was released on 1885. Can the Old Faith Live with the New? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Staging Faith
Staging Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Faith write by Victor I. Scherb. This book was released on 2001. Staging Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Illustrating this thesis through an examination of the plays themselves, Staging Faith explores how different modes of production resulted in different types of dramatic organization, different relationships between the audience and the dramatic action, and how dramatists exploited the symbolic and affective potential of different types of settings, props, and dramatic actions. The simple place-and-scaffold play accommodated an oppositional structure, one that could be embodied spatially in the arrangement of the scaffolds and further articulated in processional action. The symbolic images in these dramas often have a strongly devotional character and attempt to unite the play's audience around a central devotional object or scene."--BOOK JACKET.
Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith
Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith write by Regina Buccola. This book was released on 2006. Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage write by Asuka Kimura. This book was released on 2023-01-30. Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
