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Book SynopsisFraming 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.
Trade ReviewThis multidisciplinary anthology of articles on Mariology in Russian culture documents a remarkable range of functions served by the figure of the Mother of God (Bogoroditsa) in the spheres of art, social history, folk belief, poetry, politics, prose, religious culture, and theology. Editors Amy Singleton Adams and Vera Shevzov handle the vastness of the topic well through a chronological arrangement of the subject matter (seventeenth to twenty-first centuries), by a fine introduction delineating the notion of 'frames' placed around Mary, and by deftly weaving cross-references between the pieces.
* The Russian Review *
Kudos to Adams and Shevzov for assembling such a fruitful harvest of consistently stimulating researches. Can't wait for volume 2
* Journal of Modern History *
