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- catalog abstract ""Women known as "shriekers" howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed by many to be possessed by demons, these central figures in the cultural drama of klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While peasants and clergymen sheltered the shriekers, others analyzed, diagnosed, and objectified them. The Russian Orthodox Church played an important role in the drama, for, while moving toward a scientific explanation for the behavior of the klikushi, 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 rural Russia. Drawing from a wide range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic, and literary - Worobec looks at klikushestvo over a broad span of time, focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when all of Russian society felt the pressure of modernization."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12051976.
- catalog coverage "Russia Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Women known as "shriekers" howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed by many to be possessed by demons, these central figures in the cultural drama of klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While peasants and clergymen sheltered the shriekers, others analyzed, diagnosed, and objectified them. The Russian Orthodox Church played an important role in the drama, for, while moving toward a scientific explanation for the behavior of the klikushi, 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 rural Russia. Drawing from a wide range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic, and literary - Worobec looks at klikushestvo over a broad span of time, focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when all of Russian society felt the pressure of modernization."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Confronting Klikushestvo: An Introduction -- Ch. 1. State and Church Perceptions -- Ch. 2. Peasant Views -- Ch. 3. Literary and Ethnographic Portrayals -- Ch. 4. Psychiatric Diagnoses -- Ch. 5. Sorting through Multiple Realities -- App. I. Database of Klikushi/klikuny -- App. II. Database of Witchcraft Cases.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 288 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0875802737 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Russia Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Russia".
- catalog spatial "Russia.".
- catalog subject "133.4/26/0820947 21".
- catalog subject "BF1555 .W795 2001".
- catalog subject "Demoniac possession Russia.".
- catalog subject "Klikushi; klikushestvo".
- catalog subject "Mentally ill women Russia.".
- catalog subject "Witchcraft Russia.".
- catalog subject "Women peasants Russia Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Confronting Klikushestvo: An Introduction -- Ch. 1. State and Church Perceptions -- Ch. 2. Peasant Views -- Ch. 3. Literary and Ethnographic Portrayals -- Ch. 4. Psychiatric Diagnoses -- Ch. 5. Sorting through Multiple Realities -- App. I. Database of Klikushi/klikuny -- App. II. Database of Witchcraft Cases.".
- catalog title "Possessed : women, witches, and demons in Imperial Russia / Christine D. Worobec.".
- catalog type "text".