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Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s) book cover

1st Edition

Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s)

Edited By Barbara Martin, Nadezhda Beliakova Copyright 2024
256 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Introduction

  1. Change of Ritual Practice under Communism: the Case of the Russian Orthodox Church in Soviet Ukraine in the late 1950s – early 1970s - Natalia Shlikhta

  2. The Erosion of Tradition. Life Cycle Rites among the Orthodox in the Prikam’e Region (1950s-1980s) - Svetlana Riazanova

  3. The Rybnitser Rebbe and Underground Jewish Religious Life in the Soviet town of Rybnitsa (1960s – 1970s) - Maria Kaspina

  4. Funeral and Memorial Rites of Moscow Muslims in the 1960s-1980s - Islam Zaripov and Marat Safarov

  5. The Boundaries of Legality as an Approach to the Study of Soviet Religious Policy: the Case of Evangelical Christians-Baptists - Johannes Dyck

  6. Trying to leave the Religious Underground. Registration of Catholic communities in late Soviet Kazakhstan - Jerzy Rohozinski

  7. The Activism of Soviet Pentecostals in the 1960s – 1980s - Vera Kliueva

  8. Gender specificity of protest activism in unregistered groups of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in the late Soviet Union - Nadezhda Beliakova

  9. A Christian feminism in the USSR? A historical overview of the religious women’s club "Mariia" (1980-1982) - Anna Sidorevich

  10. Startsy, samizdat and underground seminars: the religious life of young Russian Orthodox converts in the 1970s-1980s - Barbara Martin

  11. Anatolii Vaneev's circle as a phenomenon of informal church community in Leningrad in the 1970s-1980s. - Anna Lepekina

  12. Longing for Truth, Morality, and Enchantment: Late Soviet Spiritual Searches and Journeys to Islam, 1970s-1980s - Eva Rogaar

  13. The Entry of Indian Spiritual Movements into the Cultural Space of Soviet Latvia in the 1970s-80s - Solveiga Krumina-Konkova

  14. Astrological samizdat in the context of (post-)Soviet esoteric culture - Anna Tessman

Index

Biography

Barbara Martin is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Basel, Switzerland

Nadezhda Beliakova is a a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bielefeld, Germany

“This volume is the product of a 2021 virtual workshop at the University of Basel and brings together scholars of late Soviet religiosity from across Europe and the former Soviet Union, including a majority who work in the former Soviet republics and in the Russian Federation… This is a well-edited book with consistently informative chapter titles and subheadings, as well as concise, practical conclusions to each essay… [and] The chapters will best serve scholars seeking depth of information on selected topics”.

Joseph Kellner, University of Georgia

 

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