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Author: Niels C., Jr. Nielsen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429981317 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 261
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Specialists from Europe and the US investigate the current and changing role of religion in post-communist Russia. Drawing upon Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic points of view, they examine the Russian religious attitudes, activities and institutions, and explore the ways in which religion will significantly impact emerging social and political questions there. The volume should be of use to scholars of Russian politics, society, and religion and for anyone interested in the emerging culture of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Author: Niels C., Jr. Nielsen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429981317 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 261
Book Description
Specialists from Europe and the US investigate the current and changing role of religion in post-communist Russia. Drawing upon Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic points of view, they examine the Russian religious attitudes, activities and institutions, and explore the ways in which religion will significantly impact emerging social and political questions there. The volume should be of use to scholars of Russian politics, society, and religion and for anyone interested in the emerging culture of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Author: Geraldine Fagan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415490022 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 305
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As unease mounts over Russia's direction under Presidents Putin and Medvedev, how free are her faith communities? Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with religious and state representatives across Russia, this book explores religious policy as both a gauge of Kremlin commitment to democratic values and a reflection of national identity.
Author: Adeeb Khalid Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520957865 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 266
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How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these questions. Arguing that the sustained Soviet assault on Islam destroyed patterns of Islamic learning and thoroughly de-Islamized public life, Khalid demonstrates that Islam became synonymous with tradition and was subordinated to powerful ethnonational identities that crystallized during the Soviet period. He shows how this legacy endures today and how, for the vast majority of the population, a return to Islam means the recovery of traditions destroyed under Communism. Islam after Communism reasons that the fear of a rampant radical Islam that dominates both Western thought and many of Central Asia’s governments should be tempered with an understanding of the politics of antiterrorism, which allows governments to justify their own authoritarian policies by casting all opposition as extremist. Placing the Central Asian experience in the broad comparative perspective of the history of modern Islam, Khalid argues against essentialist views of Islam and Muslims and provides a nuanced and well-informed discussion of the forces at work in this crucial region.
Author: Michael Gehler Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9462702160 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.
Author: Stephen Cavana Headley Publisher: ISBN: 9781933275444 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 574
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The fate of religion in the post-communist societies of eastern Europe remains one of the single most important issues in the comparative sociology of religion. No country is more important to that study than Russia. A gifted scholar of religion in both eastern Asia and Russia, Stephen Headley provides a sensitive portrait of Orthodoxy in Russia during the post-Soviet period. Headley tells the story of Russian Christianity from within - and with an eye for religious devotion as well as church reconstruction. The result is a beautiful, informative, and exquisitely rare book.
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268161291 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 69
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Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it has been carried on by latter-day interpreters from Rosa Luxemburg and Trotsky to Kautsky and Lukacs. The result is a lucid exposition of Marxism and an incisive account of its persistence and continuing importance.
Author: Desmond O'Grady Publisher: Gracewing Publishing ISBN: 9780852443033 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 226
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Thoroughly topical and meticulously researched, "The Turned Card" presents a full account of the impact of Christianity on the communist world during the years leading to its collapse. The book explores the important role played by Christians in the period of moral and political confusion that followed.
Author: Niels C. Nielsen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367314965 Category : Christianity Languages : en Pages : 187
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Religious leaders and experts engage in an open and concise discussion of the of the slow progress of Christian growth in Russia. Editor Niels C. Nielsen Jr. has colleted an enlightening discussion of current and past challanges of the Russian Chrisitan movement.
Author: Zoe Knox Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134360827 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism, which in turn have influenced the ways in which Russians understand civil society, including those of its features - pluralism and freedom of conscience - that are essential for a functioning democracy. It shows how the official church, including the Moscow Patriarchate, has impeded the development of civil society, while on the other hand the non-official church, including nonconformist clergy and lay activists, has promoted concepts central to civil society.
Author: Niels C., Jr. Nielsen
Author: Niels C., Jr. Nielsen
Author: Geraldine Fagan
Author: Adeeb Khalid
Author: Niels C., Jr. Nielsen
Author: Michael Gehler
Author: Stephen Cavana Headley
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre
Author: Desmond O'Grady
Author: Niels C. Nielsen
Author: Zoe Knox