Religious Minorities during Russia’s Transition from Atheism to Secularism
This paper describes the religious "market" in post-U.S.S.R. Russia, with the most attention to religious minorities. In Russia, as well as in some other post-communist countries, the new situation does not fit in any existing typology of religious life. On the one hand, there is a "r...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2000
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 11, Pages: 65-79 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | This paper describes the religious "market" in post-U.S.S.R. Russia, with the most attention to religious minorities. In Russia, as well as in some other post-communist countries, the new situation does not fit in any existing typology of religious life. On the one hand, there is a "rehabilitation" of religion after decades of an antireligious sociopolitical environment. On the other hand, there is the process of accommodating to a new global postreligious modernity that presumes religious pluralism within a secularized setting. The paper especially considers the situation of minority religions in a country dominated by one powerful denomination, Russian Orthodoxy. This study is based on a series of interviews conducted in 1995 and 1996 among leaders and ordinary members of several minority communities including Pentecostals, Lutherans, Rosa (Dew) Church1, and New Apostolic Church, all in Moscow. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004493278_006 |