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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture

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... post-Soviet Elena Omelchenko holidays, Russian Orthodox Nadieszda Kizenko holidays, Soviet Laura Adams holy fool (iurodivyi, iurodivaia) Nadieszda Kizenko Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery (TroitseSergieva Lavra) Tatiana Senkevitch ...

Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia

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... surviving traces of confession we have are necessarily one-sided and inconclusive at best. Among the only exceptions to the silence of the penitents 93 4 Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred Narrative Nadieszda Kizenko.

Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical ...

Sonja Luehrmann

The feminization of religious leadership and transmission is another oft-noted innovation from the Soviet era. More recently, Nadieszda Kizenko has analyzed changing practices of Orthodox Christian confession as forms of liturgical creativity ...

Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia

Valerie Sperling

According to historian Nadieszda Kizenko, in the contemporary period “many Orthodox Christians reject both Soviet and Western languages of equality as being hostile to Orthodox Christian values and damaging to Russia” and largely ...

Adventures in Russ Hist Research

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See Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, especially Chapter 8, "Posthumous Legacy." 19 Post-Soviet Improvisations Life and ...

The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia

Patricia Herlihy

See Nadieszda Kizenko, "The Making of a Modern Saint: Ioann of Kronstadt and the Russian People, 1855-1917" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1995), p. 350. Some of his followers, known as Ioannites, were also devoted to abstinence ...

Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial ...

Ellie Schainker

TsGIA-SPb, f. 2219, op. 1, d. 31, ll. 133–36ob., as translated and annotated in Nadieszda Kizenko, “Written Confessions to Father John of Kronstadt, 1898– 1908,” in Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Source Book on Lived Religion, ed ...

Beyond the Monastery Walls: The Ascetic Revolution in ...

Patrick Lally Michelson

University Press, 2009), 125–50; Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 27–30; Irina Paert, Spiritual Elders: Charisma and Tradition ...

A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian ...

Nadieszda Kizenko

The Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience Judith Van Herik, General Editor The series publishes books that interpret religions by studying personal experience in its historical, geographical, social, and cultural settings. Lee Hoinacki ...