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 1       Types,4|                                   Aesthetic piety~It is difficult to
 2       Types,4|          trace the origins of the aesthetic type of piety. It has probably
 3       Types,4| determined by a well-known act of aesthetic piety. St. Vladimir compared
 4       Types,4|         of its rites and for that aesthetic experience which so shook
 5       Types,4|         not known for any special aesthetic sensitivity, produced such
 6       Types,4|    stratum into the Church -- the aesthetic type of piety was almost
 7       Types,4|  achievements.~But alongside this aesthetic approach to religion there
 8       Types,4|           cultural elitism of any aesthetic stance. When defending aesthetic
 9       Types,4|  aesthetic stance. When defending aesthetic values, a person divides
10       Types,4|        little flock" with special aesthetic sensitivity, and the mass
11       Types,4|    satisfaction through the lofty aesthetic beauty of the divine services,
12       Types,4|      whole of the divine service.~Aesthetic criteria gradually replace
13       Types,4|           to find love within the aesthetic type of religious life.
14       Types,4|  possibility of the spread of the aesthetic type of piety amongst Russians,
15       Types,4|        doubt, of course, that the aesthetic type of Orthodox piety,
16       Types,4|           to seal the fate of the aesthetic elite.~But precisely because
17       Types,4|           which characterizes the aesthetic type of piety that will