Religious life in the late Soviet Union : : from survival to revival (1960s-1980s) / / edited by Barbara Martin and Nadezhda Beli︠a︡kova.

• Superior document: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Author: Martin, Barbara active 2023.
• TeilnehmendeR: Beliakova, Nadezhda.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)

"This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions 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...

Table of Contents

• Change of ritual practice under communism : the case of the Russian Orthodox Church in Soviet Ukraine in the late 1950s- early 1970s / Natalia Shlikhta
• The erosion of tradition : life cycle rites among the Orthodox in the Prikam'e Region (1950s-1980s) / Svetlana Riazanova
• The Rybnitser Rebbe and Underground Jewish religious life in the Soviet town of Rybnitsa (1960s-1970s) / Maria Kaspina
• Funeral and memorial rites of Moscow Muslims in the 1960s-1980s / Islam Zaripov and Marat Safarov
• The boundaries of legality as an approach to the study of Soviet religious policy : the case of evangelical Christians-Baptists / Johannes Dyck
• Trying to leave the religious underground : registration of Catholic communities in late Soviet Kazakhstan / Jerzy Rohozinski
• The activism of Soviet Pentecostals in the 1960s-1980s / Vera Kliueva
• Gender specificity of protest activism in unregistered groups of evangelical Christians-Baptists in the late Soviet Union / Nadezhda Beliakova
• A Christian feminism in the USSR? : a historical overview of the religious women's club "Mariia" (1980-1982) / Anna Sidorevich
• Startsy, samizdat and underground seminars : the religious life of young Russian Orthodox converts in the 1970s-1980s / Barbara Martin
• Anatolii Vaneev's circle as a phenomenon of informal church community in Leningrad in the 1970s-1980s / Anna Lepekina
• Longing for Truth, morality, and enchantment : late Soviet spiritual searches and journeys to Islam, 1970s-1980s / Eva Rogaar
• The entry of Indian spiritual movements into the cultural space of Soviet Latvia in the 1970s-80s / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova
• Astrological samizdat in the context of (post-)Soviet esoteric culture / Anna Tessman.