Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 275 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0253356989
,
0253223555
,
0253005426
,
9780253356987
,
9780253223555
,
9780253005427
Serie:
New anthropologies of Europe
Inhalt:
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 a
Inhalt:
Neighbors and comrades: secularizing the Mari country -- "Go teach": methods of change -- Church closings and sermon circuits -- Marginal lessons -- Visual aid -- The soul and the Spirit -- Lifelong learning -- Conclusion: affinity and discernment
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Sprache:
Englisch
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