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Code: 031930-8
Asiatica: Trudy po Filosofii i Kul`turam Vostoka
Vyp. 8
[ Asiatica: Works on the philosophy and culture of the East : Issue 8 ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S-Peterburgskogo un-ta, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is the eighth volume of the yearly of works by Russian orientalists in Sinology, Indology, Egyptian studies, history of religions, etc. Started in 2005.

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Code: 005145-13
Akin`shin, A.N
Voronezhskii Nekropol`
Vypusk 2: Liuteranskie i Katolicheskie Zakhoroneniia na Voznesenskom (Chugunovskom) Kladbishche
[ Voronezh Necropol : Issue two: Lutheran and Catholic graves at Voznesenskoe (Chugunovskoe) Cemetery ]
St. Petersburg: VIRD, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This brochure contains information about over 2,000 Lutheran and Catholic citizens of Voronezh buried in the German cemetery (part of Voznesenskoe (Ascension) cemetery). Also included are data about Lutherans and Catholics buried in the Tambov, Penza, and Voronezh Cemeteries.

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Code: 026849
Ot Bytiia k Inobytiiu
Fol`klor i Pogrebal`nyi Ritual v Traditsionnykh Kul`turakh Sibiri i Ameriki
[ From existence to the beyond : Folklore and funeral rite in traditional cultures of Siberia and America: Collected articles ]
St. Petersburg: Kunstkamera, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This collection studies mythological interpretation of the world beyond, the symbolic meaning of burial rituals in the context of the traditional views of small peoples of Siberia and related peoples of North America.

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Code: 012731
Mogarichev, Iu.M
Peshchernye Tserkvi Tavrikii

[ Cave churches of Tavrikiia : ]
Simferopol`: Tavriia, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

There are more then a thousand of architectural monuments in the old mountains of South-West Crimea, but the cave churches of the 10th-18th centuries are possibly the most interesting ones. This book, written by professional historian, describes the main churches in several cave towns: Inkerman, Chilter-Marmara, Shuldan, Eski-kermen, Mangup, etc.

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Code: 004779
Podmaskin, V.V
Dukhovnaia Kul`tura Udegeitsev XIX-XX vv.
Istoriko-Etnograficheskie Ocherki
[ The Spiritual culture of Udehe : Istoriko-Etnograficheskie Ocherki ]
Vladivostok: Izd-vo Dal`nevostochnogo Universiteta, 1991
Language: Russian

Price: $ 15.00

This is an ethnographic study of one of the aboriginal people of the Far North. Based upon written sources, museum collections, and field materials the author studies the traditional conceptions of the Udeghe about human beings, space and time, fauna and flora, their medical and pedagogical ideas, their rituals and holidays, epic and musical arts, life style and traditions.

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Code: 027133
Traditsionnye Obriady i Verovaniia Chuvashei

[ The traditrional rites and beliefs of the Chuvash : ]
: Nauka, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 34.00

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Code: 011104
Gertsen, A., Mogarichev, Iu
Peshchernye Tserkvi Mangupa

[ Cave churches of Mangup : ]
Simferopol’ (Ukraine): Tavriia, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 33.00

In the 14th century, when the Golden Horde was disintegrating, there developed strong tendencies towards consolidation of the Christian population, and separate principalities were established in the West.

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Code: 007185
Sem` Velikikh Tain Kosmosa
Sochineniia
[ Seven great cosmic mysteries : Sochineniia ]
: Eksmo-Press, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

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Code: 008406
Elena Ivanovna Rerikh: Pis`ma
Toma 1-3
[ Letters: In nine volumes: Volumes 1-3 : Toma 1-3 ]
: Mezhdunarodnyi Tsentr Rerikhov, 1999-2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 99.00

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Code: 012129
Mitrokhin, L.N
Baptizm: Istoriia i Sovremennost`
Filosofsko-Sotsiologicheskie Ocherki
[ Baptism: history and the present : Philosophical sociological studies ]
St. Petersburg: RKhGI, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

The first Russian study of the origin, development, and current state of the Baptist Church in the world and in Russia. The Lev Mitrokhin (1930-2005) used new archival documents and manuscripts about Russian Baptists.

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Code: 010360
Galdanova, G.R
Dolamaistskie Verovaniia Buriat

[ The Dolamaist beliefs of the Buryats : ]
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1987
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This book studies the traditional religious beliefs of the Buryats of Zabaikal`e (near Baikal) based on ethnographic materials collected from the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. Bibliography.

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Code: 011095
Zelinskii, F. F
Religiia Ellinizma

[ The Religion of Hellenism : ]
Tomsk: Vodolei, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

Fadei Zelinskii (1859-1944) was a Russian classicist, philosopher and symbolist poet of the Silver Age. The book was first published in 1922.

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Code: 005919
S. Tokarev. Izbrannoe. V 2-kh Tomakh
Teoreticheskie i Istoriograficheskie Stat`i po Etnografii i Religiiam
[ Selected works : Theoretic and historiographic articles on ethnography and world religions ]
: In-t Etnologii i Antropologii RAN, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

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Code: 007622
Tokareva, E.S
Fashizm, Tserkov` i Katolicheskoe Dvizhenie v Italii, 1922-1943

[ Fascismo e "Mondo Cattolico" in Italia, 1922-1943 : ]
Moscow: Intsitut Vseobshchei Istorii, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is a monograph on the position and state of the Catholic Church and its organizations during the period of the fascist dictatorship.

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