Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s)
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2024
Authors
Shlikhta, Natalia
Riazanova, Svetlana
Kaspina, Maria
Zaripov, Islam
Safarov, Marat
Dyck, Johannes
RohoziĆski, Jerzy
Kliueva, Vera
Beliakova, Nadezhda
Sidorevich, Anna
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This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across severalconfessions 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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late Soviet religiosity, religious communities, religion, forms of religiosity, monograph
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Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s) / [N. Shlikhta, S. Riazanova, M. Kaspina et al.] ; edited by B. Martin, N. Beliakova. - Oxon : Routledge : Abingdon, 2023. - 1 online resource. - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311294