No. 2 (35) 2017
Table of Contents
Main Theme
- The Punishment of Saints as Pious Blasphemy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
- On the Verge of lèse majesté divine: Patterns of Subversive Behavior in Seventeenth-Century France
- How to Accept the Unacceptable: Blasphemy and Atheism in the Judicial Practice of the Roman Inquisition in the Seventeenth Century
- Blasphemy on the Ships of the Maltese Corsairs (According to Documents of the Inquisition at the End of the Seventeenth Century)
- Procopius Lupkin and Ivan Suslov: Saints, Blasphemers, False Christs, Anti-Christs?
- Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black: Visions of Public Space in Brazil’s Recent Holy War
- German Criminal Legislation in the Religious Sphere: History and Contemporary Discussions
VARIA
- “The Most Sublime and Benevolent Code of Morals Which Has Ever Been Offered to Man”: Debates on The Jefferson Bible
- “Everson”, “McCollum”, “Zorach”: The Supreme Court and the Debate on Church-State Relations in the United States in the Late 1940s — Early 1950s
- The Russian Tsar in Non-Christian Religions of the Russian Empire
- Religion and Identity in Buryatia: Competition between Orthodoxy and Buddhism in Late Imperial Russia (On Materials from St. Petersburg Archives)
Contemporary Theology
Book Reviews
- Newman, B. (2013) Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred. (Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies.) Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. — 400 p.
- Smilianskaia, E. B. (2016) Volshebniki, bogokhul’niki, eretiki v setiakh rossiiskogo syska XVIII veka [Sorcerers, Blasphemers, Heretics in the Nets of Russian Investigation of the Eighteenth Century]. M.: Lomonosov. — 384 p.
- Natale, S. (2016) Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture. The Pennsylvania State University Press. — 235 p.
- Ostrovskaia, E.A. (2016) Buddiiskie obshchiny Sankt‑Peterburga [Buddhist Communities of Saint-Petersburg]. SPb.: Aleteiia. — 198 p.
- Lebedev, V. Iu., Prilutskii, A. M., Grigorenko, A. Iu. (2016) Istoriia religii: uchebnik dlia akademicheskogo bakalavriata [History of Religion: Textbook for Academic Bachelor Studies]. M.: Iurait, 2016. — 456 p.