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This work examines the phenomenon of demon possession in rural Russia. Drawing from a range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic and literary - Worobec looks at "klikushestuo" over a broad span of time but focuses mainly on the 19th and early-20th centuries.

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"Exceptionally well-researched and exhaustive."
-Association for Women in Slavic Studies
"Worobec is at her best as a storyteller.... Her scholarship is marked by a meticulous reading of sources and a sensitivity to and respect for the people she studies."—Russian Review



Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Confronting Klikushestvo: An Introduction
1. State and Church Perceptions
The Legal Case
Orthodoxy's Triumph over the Devil
Scientific Rationalism and the Miraculous
Conclusion
2. Peasant Views
Popular Orthodoxy
Witchcraft
3. Literary and Ethnographic Portrayals
Romantic Images
Images of Serfdome
An Ethnographic-Historical Account
Feodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
The Dark Side of Peasant Beliefs
Conclusion
4. Psychiatric Diagnoses
The Search for Klikushi
Scientific Rationalism versus. Popular Practices
Hysteria versus. Somnambulism
Mass Psychology
Conclusion
5. Sorting through Multiple Realities
Appendix 1: Database of Klikushi/klikuny
Appendix 2: Database of Witchcraft Cases
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 1 February 2001
      ISBN-13 9780875802732
      978-0875802732
      ISBN-10 0875802737
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      Witchcraft / Witches

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work examines the phenomenon of demon possession in rural Russia. Drawing from a range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic and literary - Worobec looks at "klikushestuo" over a broad span of time but focuses mainly on the 19th and early-20th centuries.

      Trade Review

      "Exceptionally well-researched and exhaustive."
      -Association for Women in Slavic Studies
      "Worobec is at her best as a storyteller.... Her scholarship is marked by a meticulous reading of sources and a sensitivity to and respect for the people she studies."—Russian Review



      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents
      Confronting Klikushestvo: An Introduction
      1. State and Church Perceptions
      The Legal Case
      Orthodoxy's Triumph over the Devil
      Scientific Rationalism and the Miraculous
      Conclusion
      2. Peasant Views
      Popular Orthodoxy
      Witchcraft
      3. Literary and Ethnographic Portrayals
      Romantic Images
      Images of Serfdome
      An Ethnographic-Historical Account
      Feodor Dostoevsky
      Leo Tolstoy
      The Dark Side of Peasant Beliefs
      Conclusion
      4. Psychiatric Diagnoses
      The Search for Klikushi
      Scientific Rationalism versus. Popular Practices
      Hysteria versus. Somnambulism
      Mass Psychology
      Conclusion
      5. Sorting through Multiple Realities
      Appendix 1: Database of Klikushi/klikuny
      Appendix 2: Database of Witchcraft Cases
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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