Changing Forms and Images of Religiosity

Images of the Country, Church, the People and the Human Person in Prayers for Russia of the Revolutionary Era

This article looks at prayers for Russia and for the Russian Church which were written or compiled during the period of Russia’s revolutionary trials. These texts and rites were the fruits of the ecclesial and religious reflections of the faithful in response to the tragic events that were engulfing Russia’s life and society; they give us a chance to see the events of the era as refracted through the lens of contemporary theological, ecclesial and religious thought.

Russian Orthodox Women in Unorthodox Times: Patterns of Female Agency and Authority in the Revolutionary Era, 1917–1927

This paper examines various ways in which lay Orthodox women — as mothers, wives, workers, and daughters — navigated the challenges and opportunities they encountered with respect to their faith in the early Soviet period. It centers on two questions: How did women’s faith impact their experience of the Revolution under Bolshevik rule? And how did women’s religious beliefs, behaviors, and faith‑based relationships influence how the Revolution was “lived”?

Popular Religiosity and Images of Priesthood during the First World War and Revolution

The article investigates the reasons for the spread of negative images of the clergy, captured during the World War I in the letters of ordinary people and, since 1917, in visual sources.