[PDF.65kr] Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale

Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale

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 | #2960553 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2003-11-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.14 x.70 x6.26l,.85 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Castration and Religion|By D. Winarchick|Well written book about a different culture with different religious beliefs and practices. Extremely educational and enlightening. Highly recommended. Thanks.| |"Scholarly and unsensational . . . Ms. Engelstein presents us with some remarkable pictures."―Jasper Griffin, The New York of Books

"This is a remarkable book about a remarkably extreme group of people. . . Engelstein's account of the Skoptsy en

Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on themselves to become "eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." Convinced that salvation came only with the literal excision of the instruments of sin, they were known as Skoptsy (the self-castrated). Their community thrived w...

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