Possessed : Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia (Niu Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

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Possessed : Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia (Niu Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 303 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780875802732
  • DDC分類 133.4260820947

Full Description

Women known as "shriekers" howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed to be possessed by devils, these central figures in a cultural drama known as klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While sympathetic monks and peasants tended to shelter the shriekers, others analyzed, diagnosed, and objectified them. The Russian Orthodox Church played an important role, for, while moving toward a scientific explanation for the behavior of these women, it was reluctant to abandon the ideas of possession and miraculous exorcism.



Possessed is the first book to examine the phenomenon of demon possession in Russia. Drawing upon a wide range of sources—religious, psychiatric, ethnographic, and literary—Worobec looks at klikushestvo over a broad span of time but focuses mainly on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when all of Russian society felt the pressure of modernization.



Worobec's definitive study is as much an account of perceptions of the klikushi as an analysis of the women themselves, for, even as modern rationalism began to affect religious belief in Russia, explanations of the shriekers continued to differ widely. Examining various cultural constructions, Worobec shows how these interpretations were rooted in theology, village life and politics, and gender relationships.



Engaging broad issues in Russian history, women's history, and popular religious culture, Possessed will interest readers across several disciplines. Its insights into the cultural phenomenon of possession among Russian peasant women carry rich implications for understanding the ways in which a complex society treated women believed to be out of control.

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