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Believing in Russia - Religious Policy after Communism (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) - Softcover
This book presents a comprehensive overview of religion in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life. It shows how religious freedom in Russia has, contrary to the widely held view, a long tradition, and how the leading religious institutions in Russia today, including especially the Russian Orthodox Church but also Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist establishments, owe a great deal of their special positions to the relationship they had with the former Soviet regime. It discusses the nature of everyday religious life in Russia, contrasting the internal life of faith communities with the public discourse of their leaders. It examines the flowering of religious freedom and the burgeoning of new sects in the years immediately after the end of the Soviet regime, showing how freedoms were subsequently curtailed, but only partially, by the important law of 1997. It discusses how far Russian Orthodox Christianity is related to Russian national culture, demonstrating the unresolved nature of the key question, Is Russia to be an Orthodox country with religious minorities or a multi-confessional state? and concluding that Russian society has so far failed to reach a consensus on the legal status of religion and its role in public life, contrasting the position in Russia on this with the position in other former Soviet republics including Belarus and Ukraine.
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Geraldine Fagan is Moscow correspondent for Forum 18 News Service, and has monitored religious policy across Russia for the past decade.
"The author is to be commended for providing such an exceptional and unique assemblage of perceptions and insights, and doing so by way of engaging prose. For those interested in any aspect of Russian affairs, this book is must-read material."
James W.Warhola, The University of Maine Orono, Maine, USA
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0415818648
- ISBN 13 9780415818643
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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