Religious Life In The Late Soviet Union

Author : Barbara Martin,Nadezhda Beliakova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000930436

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Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union by Barbara Martin,Nadezhda Beliakova Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032317779

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Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union by Anonim Pdf

"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"--

Author : Victoria Smolkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691197234

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A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by Victoria Smolkin Pdf

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.

Author : Victoria Smolkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400890101

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A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by Victoria Smolkin Pdf

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.

Author : James H. Forest
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015018951478

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Religion in the New Russia by James H. Forest Pdf

Humanist and ecumenist Forest (a contributing editor of Sojourners, editor of Forum for the World Council of Churches, and director of the Peace Media Center in Holland) has travelled widely in the Soviet Union, visited many religious centers, and talked with adherents of nearly every faith. He mainly lets them speak for themselves, revealing their past experience, present status, and vision of the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0822308916

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Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

Religious organizations in many countries of the communist world have served as agents for the preservation, defense, and reinforcement of nationalist feelings, and in playing this role have frequently been a source of frustration to the Communist Party elites. Although the relationship between governments and religious groups varies according to the particular country and group in question, the mosaic of these relationships constitutes a revealing picture of the political reform shaping the lives of Soviet and East European citizens.

Author : Walter Kolarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSC:32106005430084

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Religion in the Soviet Union by Walter Kolarz Pdf

Comprehensive survey of the situation of various religious groups in the U.S.S.R., including Christian, Moslem, Buddhist, Jewish, with contemporary developments under the Khrushchev regime.

Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757693

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The Dangerous God by Dominic Erdozain Pdf

At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.

Author : Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521022304

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Religious Policy in the Soviet Union by Sabrina Petra Ramet Pdf

This book provides a sweeping and comprehensive analysis of the history of religion in the Soviet Union, tracing its fortunes through the chaos of the 1920s, and the anti-religious persecution of Stalinism, to the slow strangulation of Brezhnev, and the liberalization under Gorbachev. Bringing together fifteen of the West's leading scholars on this subject, the book examines the policy apparatus, atheist education, cults and sects, and recent changes in legislation and policy, presenting hitherto unknown material for the first time.

Author : Michael Bourdeaux,Kathleen Matchett,Cornelia Gerstenmaier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082106795

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Religious Minorities in the Soviet Union (1960-70) by Michael Bourdeaux,Kathleen Matchett,Cornelia Gerstenmaier Pdf

Author : Philip Emil Muehlenbeck
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826518521

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Religion and the Cold War by Philip Emil Muehlenbeck Pdf

The influence of faith in the conflicts that defined the Cold War

Author : Stephen J. Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412927

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Handbook of Megachurches by Stephen J. Hunt Pdf

The megachurch is an exceptional recent religious trend, certainly within Christian spheres. Spreading from the USA, megachurches now reached reach different global contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives.

Author : Kees Boterbloem
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474285490

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Life in Stalin's Soviet Union by Kees Boterbloem Pdf

Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience' and 'Religion and Ideology', the book is comprised of chapters covering a range of important subjects, including: * Food * Health and Housing * Sex and Gender * Education * Religion (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) * Sport and Leisure * Festivals There is detailed analysis of urban and rural life, as well as explorations of life in the gulag, life as a peasant, life in the military and what it was like to be disabled in Stalin's Russia. The book also engages with the wider Soviet Union wherever possible to ensure the most in-depth discussion of life, in all its minutiae, under Stalin. This is a vitally important book for any student of Stalin's Russia keen to know more about the human history of this complex period of dictatorship.

Author : Steven Merritt Miner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862124

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Stalin's Holy War by Steven Merritt Miner Pdf

Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin's restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalism in order to counter the mortal threat of Nazism. Here, Steven Merritt Miner argues that this version of events, while not wholly untrue, is incomplete. Using newly opened Soviet-era archives as well as neglected British and American sources, he examines the complex and profound role of religion, especially Russian Orthodoxy, in the policies of Stalin's government during World War II. Miner demonstrates that Stalin decided to restore the Church to prominence not primarily as a means to stoke the fires of Russian nationalism but as a tool for restoring Soviet power to areas that the Red Army recovered from German occupation. The Kremlin also harnessed the Church for propaganda campaigns aimed at convincing the Western Allies that the USSR, far from being a source of religious repression, was a bastion of religious freedom. In his conclusion, Miner explores how Stalin's religious policy helped shape the postwar history of the USSR.

Author : D. Kirby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781403919571

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Religion and the Cold War by D. Kirby Pdf

Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. This unique study shows why religion is a key Cold War variable. A specially commissioned collection of new scholarship, it provides fresh insights into the complex nature of the Cold War. It has profound resonance today with the resurgence of religion as a political force in global society.