Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia

358 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Europe 1 (2008) 353–364 Mark D. Steinberg & Heater J. Coleman (eds.), Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 420 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-34747-3 (cloth) and 978-0-253-21850-6 (pbk.), $70.00 (cloth) and $24.95 (pbk.) Sacred Stories deals with the turn of the twentieth century in late imperial Russia. In recent years there has been a growing interest in this period of Russian history, and new light has been shed on the epoch. In the research tradition of the twenti- eth century the transitional decades immediately preceding the revolution