Books by Vera Shevzov
Articles and Essays by Vera Shevzov
Il dono dell’ospitalità. atti del XXV Convegno ecumenico internazionale di spiritualità ortodossa, Bose, 6-9 settembre 2017, ed. by Luigi d'Ayala Valva, Lisa Cremaschi and Adalberto Mainardi, Spiritualità orientale (Magnano (BI): Edizioni Qiqajon, 2018), pp. 201-229., 2018
Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia, ed. Paul Valliere and Randall A. Poole, Routledge, 2022
The overhaul of Russia's universities by Emperor Alexander II (r. 1855-81) as part of his broader... more The overhaul of Russia's universities by Emperor Alexander II (r. 1855-81) as part of his broader reformist endeavors was a landmark in the history of Orthodox thought on church/canon law in modern times. Though not without debate, under pressure from faculties of law, the 1863 University Regulations established departments of "church jurisprudence"-offcially renamed "church law" in 1884-within university law faculties. These new departments joined a cohort of some twelve others across different felds of law, together comprising Russia's discipline of jurisprudence until the Bolshevik coup of 1917. 1 Although the study of church/canon law in terms of "church justice" (tserkovnoe pravosudie) alongside "state justice" had been proposed for Russia's frst institution of higher learning-Moscow's Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy-as early as 1668, that effort came to naught. 2 The study of church/canon law was 1 Universitetskaia reforma 1863 goda v Rossii, ed. V. A. Tomsinov (Moscow: Zertsalo, 2012), lxxxiv-cxvii. For debates regarding the establishment of departments of church law within faculties of law, see "Novye predlozheniia otnositel'no kafedr tserkovnoi istorii i tserkovnogo zakonovedeniia v nashikh universitetakh,"
The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought. Caryl Emerson, George Pattison, and Randall A. Poole, eds. (2020), 2020
antireligious, atheism, Bolshevik, freedom of conscience, internal colonization, Lenin Nicholas I... more antireligious, atheism, Bolshevik, freedom of conscience, internal colonization, Lenin Nicholas II, religion and violence, Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox church, secularization
Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and, 2018
Introduction to "Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russia... more Introduction to "Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture." Northern Illinois University Press, 2018, pp. 3-36.
Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture." Amy Singleton Adams and Vera Shevzov, eds., 2018
Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia: Culture, History, Context. Patrick Lally Michelson and Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, eds.
Religion and Gender, Vol 4, No 22 (2014). Edited by Anne-Marie Korte, Katya Tolstaya, and Heleen Zorgdrager
This article examines the explosive reaction to 'Punk Prayer' as a religious act. It argues that ... more This article examines the explosive reaction to 'Punk Prayer' as a religious act. It argues that the power of the performance as iconoclash resulted from the fact that it tapped, resonated with and disturbed Russia's Orthodox culture through its appropriation of Orthodox sound, space and symbolsnamely, the image of Mary, the Mother of God. The perceived position of its performers as insiders or outsiders to Orthodoxy, the evaluation of the sincerity of Punk Prayer as prayer and the paradoxical role that gender played in shaping these perceptions contributed to the tumultuous response.
Orthodox Constructions of the West, ed. by George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou. , 2013
The Orthodox Christian World, ed. by Augustine Casiday. Routledge, 2012
Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia, eds. Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi, 2012
Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity, ed. by Jefferson J. A. Gatrall and Douglas Greenfield. The Pennsylvania State University Press., 2010
A People's History of Christianity, vol. 6. Modern Christianity to 1900., 2007
Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars, ed. by Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene, 2003
Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern …
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Books by Vera Shevzov
Articles and Essays by Vera Shevzov