Secularism Soviet style, teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic, Sonja Luehrmann
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Secularism Soviet style, teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic, Sonja Luehrmann
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrationsmaps
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Secularism Soviet style
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electronic resource
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bibliography
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Sonja Luehrmann
Series statement
New anthropologies of Europe
Sub title
teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic
Summary
Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. The book combines 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., 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 and Islam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a time when the secularist modernization projects of the 20th century are widely perceived to have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and shared histories of religious and atheist mobilizations
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- Religion & beliefs
- USSR, Soviet Union
- Secularism -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region
- History of other lands
- Russia
- Electronic books
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Specific wars & campaigns
- Atheism -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region
- Volga-Ural Region (Russia) -- Religion
- Agnosticism & atheism
- Religion
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- Has instance1
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject12
- Religion & beliefs
- USSR, Soviet Union
- Secularism -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region
- History of other lands
- Russia
- Electronic books
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Specific wars & campaigns
- Atheism -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region
- Volga-Ural Region (Russia) -- Religion
- Agnosticism & atheism
- Religion
- Is Part Of1