No. 3 (38) 2020
Table of Contents
Main Theme
- “Old Sects” in a New Light: How to Study Russian Religious Dissent, 1700–1900
- The Early History of the Hristovschina: From an Ecstatic Movement to a Confessionalized Sect
- On Anna Stepanova, a Peasant from the Kostroma Uyezd, Revered as the Theotokos
- The Russian Judaizers and the Transylvanian Sabbatarians: An Attempt of Comparative Analysis
- “Apostasy into a Schism” in the Kazan Diocese: Old Believers in the Parish Life of the Russian Village
- Reigning with Christ for a Thousand Years: Two Prophets of Russian Millennialism
- “Living by Spirit, not by Flesh”: Demographic Behavior of the Postniks
- Old Believers Wanderers in the Second Half of the 19th — Early 20th Century (Based upon Reports of Kargopol Missionaries)
- Sectarian, Missionary, Philanthropist: A Microhistory of the Orenburg Sabbaterian Pyotr Maklakov
VARIA
- Devatāsūtra in the Arabic Compendium of Chronicles of Rashīd al-Dīn
- Apologia and Criticism of Russian Nationalism in the Journalistic Writings by Bishop Andrey (Ukhtomsky)
- “Let Your Lamps Be Ready”: Individual Destiny and Collective Identity in Eschatological Perspective (the Case of the Moscow Spiritist Circle)
- Exploring Neo-Pagan Groups in Social Networks as an Indicator of the Numbers of Adherents
- Politics in the Church: For Whom Do Orthodox Priests Call to Vote?
Book Reviews
- Dmitry Uzlaner (2020) Postsekuliarnyi povorot. Kak myslit’ o religii v XXI veke [Postsecular Turn. How to Think about Religion in the 21st Century?]. M.: Izdatel’stvo Instituta Gaiidara. — 416 p.
- Tsypylma Darieva, Florian Mühlfried, Kevin Tuite (eds) (2018) Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces. Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus. Oxford, N.Y.: Berghahn Books. – 246 p.
- Helena Kupari and Elina Vuola (eds) (2020) Orthodox Christianity and Gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice. London: Routledge. — 214 p.