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A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review). In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at ...
Women in Christianity in the Modern Age examines the role of women in Christianity in the 20th and early 21st Centuries. This edited volume includes eight important contributions from academics in the field. The modern era has been an age of social and religious upheaval, and the ravages of global warfare and changes to women’s role in society have made the examination of the place of women in religion a key question in theology. From theological concerns - engagements with the biblical texts by feminist and anti-feminist theologians, the modern role of Mary and women saints – to political and social debates on women’s ministry and place in society, and cultural shifts as expressed through theologically inspired artwork by women, Women in Christianity in the Modern Age provides an overview and in-depth studies of a tumultuous and changing era. This insightful text will be of key interest to students and scholars in Religion and Cultural Studies.
Despite the continued fascination with the Virgin Mary in modern and contemporary times, very little of the resulting scholarship on this topic extends to Russia. Russia's Mary, however, who is virtually unknown in the West, has long played a formative role in Russian society and culture. Framing Mary introduces readers to the cultural life of Mary from the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet era. It examines a broad spectrum of engagements among a variety of people—pilgrims and poets, clergy and laity, politicians and political activists—and the woman they knew as the Bogoroditsa. In this collection of well-integrated and illuminating essays, leading scholars of imperial, Soviet, and...
Thomas Timmons was an ancient grandfather of my grandmother’s family. My grandmother Geneva Josephine Timmons related the make up of the family as being English, Irish and Black Dutch, the Black Dutch having married into the Timmons family at least four times that I know of beginning with old John Calvin Timmons and Elizabeth in about 1740 in Frederick county Virginia. Then the Revolutionary war hero Abner Timmons and wife Hannah about 1785 in the old 96th District of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Then with Abner’s grandson Robert marring Matilda Brummett who’s family was from East Tennessee, Then William Timmons Robert’s oldest son married Melissa Coppock who was part Cherokee and Quaker. This Quaker family was also from South Carolina. My Timmons ancestors had migrated from Virginia to South Carolina to the Hopkins Kentucky area to Darke county Ohio, were the family lived for sixty years before moving again to Grant county Indiana and then back to Ohio in the Toledo area. The migration to Toledo took place in about 1913.
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