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Secularism Soviet Style

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Description for Secularism Soviet Style Paperback. Studies secularism and religiosity in Russia, past and present Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 292 pages, 14 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HRQA5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.

Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia's Volga region, Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religious practice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies of atheist propaganda is a widespread didactic orientation among the population and a faith in standardized programs of personal transformation as solutions to wider social problems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Series
New Anthropologies of Europe
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223555
SKU
V9780253223555
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About Sonja Luehrmann
Sonja Luehrmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University and author of Alutiiq Villages under Russian and U.S. Rule.

Reviews for Secularism Soviet Style
Drawing upon the material on a particular Russian region, the Republic of Marii El (the former Mariiskaia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, the author traces the intricate relationship of religion and secularism in Soviet and post-Soviet times.49.1 2015
Canadian-American Slavic Studies
Highly recommend[ed].
H-Soz-u-Kult
[Sony Lûrman's] objective of ... Read more

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