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oapen-20.500.12657-771512023-11-15T09:17:26Z Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union Martin, Barbara Beliakova, Nadezhda Late Soviet Union Religion Religious Life Religious repression Soviet Union bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research & statistics bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies 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. 2023-11-01T11:14:38Z 2023-11-01T11:14:38Z 2024 book ONIX_20231101_9781000930283_35 9781000930283 9781032317779 9781032317762 9781003311294 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77151 eng BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies application/pdf n/a 9781000930283.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003311294 10.4324/9781003311294 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9781000930283 9781032317779 9781032317762 9781003311294 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Routledge 256 [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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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.
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