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...

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Auteur principal: Agadjanian, Alexander (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2000
Dans: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Année: 2000, Volume: 11, Pages: 65-79
Sujets non-standardisés:B Histoire des religions
B Religionswissenschaften
B Sciences sociales
B Religion & Gesellschaft
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Résumé: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.
Contient:Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004493278_006