Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies

Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies
Author: Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253220386

"This collection reveals the presence and power of religious belief and practice in public life after the demise of Soviet socialism. Based on recent research and interdisciplinary methodologies, Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies examines how religious organizations and individuals engage the changing and troubled environment in which they live, which presents expanded civil freedom but much everyday uncertainty, unhappiness, injustice, and suffering"--Page [4] of cover.

Christianity After Communism

Christianity After Communism
Author: Niels Christian Nielsen
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1994-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN:

In presentations originally given at a conference on Religion in Eastern Europe After Communism, Held in Houston, Texas, April 1993, historians, social scientists, and theologians from Europe and the US draw upon Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic points of view to examine the religious attitudes, activities, and institutions of post-communist Russia and explore the ways in which religion will significantly impact emerging social and political questions there. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Jarrett Zigon
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 085745210X

In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and social health, and business practices. The influence of religion is also apparent in the way in which the Russian Orthodox Church increasingly acts as the moral voice of the government. The wide-ranging topics in this ethnographically based volume show the broad religious influence on both discursive and everyday moralities. The contributors reveal that although religion is a significant aspect of the various assemblages of morality, much like in other parts of the world, religion in postsocialist Russia cannot be separated from the political or economic or transnational institutional aspects of morality.

Christianity And Russian Culture In Soviet Society

Christianity And Russian Culture In Soviet Society
Author: Nicolai N. Petro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429713789

This book is the product of a three-day conference at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. It focuses on the tension between the expression of Christian beliefs and the legal restrictions imposed on professions of faith and the importance of Christian culture to perestroika.

Religion And Modernization In The Soviet Union

Religion And Modernization In The Soviet Union
Author: Dennis J. Dunn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000309576

To the surprise of many students of the Soviet Union, religion has shown itself to be a force still powerful in Soviet society. In contrast, the impact of religion in developed Western societies has declined. Dr. Dunn points out that the study of this antinomy can shed light on the entire concept of "modernization" in the U.S.S.R. The study of the

Religion in the Soviet Union

Religion in the Soviet Union
Author: F. Corley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 425
Release: 1996-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230390048

The Soviet government's attitude to religion in theory and practice is shown in this wide-ranging collection of annotated texts from the newly-opened archives. Included are documents from the KGB, the Central Committee, the Council for Religious Affairs and numerous other official bodies. For the first time in English we see the bureaucrats' own view of how religious believers should be controlled, following the story from the persecutions of the early Soviet years to the openness instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries

Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries
Author: Dr Greg Simons
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-03-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 147244969X

The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating book. Leading international scholars consider the religious and political role of Christian Orthodoxy in the Russian Federation, Romania, Georgia and Ukraine alongside the revival of old, indigenous religions, often referred to as “shamanistic” and look at how, despite Islam’s long history and many adherents in the south, Islamophobic attitudes have increasingly been added to traditional anti-Semitic, anti-Western or anti-liberal elements of Russian nationalism.

Distrust in religion in post-communist Russia

Distrust in religion in post-communist Russia
Author: Christopher Selbach
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2003-09-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3638213226

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 1.0 (A), University of Leeds (POLIS), language: English, abstract: The distrust of organised religion is a phenomenon of post-Soviet Russia. It is a likely result of developments that characterise the coming of the modern age as introduced to Russia in its full scale by post-communist liberalisation and pluralisation and is therefore comparable to earlier developments in the West. In Russia the specific experience of atheist totalitarianism as well as its collapse has enhanced several aspects of this "modernity factor" in relation to religious institutions. The essay discusses these and other factors that influenced distrust of organised religion in Russia in the 1990s.

Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union

Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union
Author: Barbara Martin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2023-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000930432

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious communities, including material from regional archives and oral history, it shows that religion not only survived Soviet anti-religious repression, but also adapted to new conditions. Going beyond traditional views about a mere "returned of the repressed", the book shows how new forms of religiosity and religious socialisation emerged, as new generations born into atheist families turned to religion in search of new meaning, long before perestroika facilitated this process. In addition, the book examines anew religious activism and transnational networks between Soviet believers and Western organisations during the Cold War, explores the religious dimension of Soviet female activism, and shifts the focus away from the non-religious human rights movement and from religious institutions to ordinary believers.