Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost

Auteur

VYACHESLAV KARPOV is a professor of sociology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is the coeditor, with Manfred Svensson, of Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth.

RACHEL L. SCHROEDER is an assistant professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Texte du rabat

In the years between the Soviet collapse and the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing irreligionists, while Ukraine solidified religious pluralism and tolerance. The book richly documents and explains the development of this contrast while offering an original theoretical and methodological perspective on desecularization (the resurgence of religion’s societal role).

Contenu

Introduction: Approaching the Puzzle of Russian Desecularization
1 Desecularization and Its Social Dynamics
2 Desecularization as a Social Drama
3 The Unresolved Dramas of the Anomic 1990s
4 “Beware, Religion!”: A Threshold Social Drama of Russian Desecularization
5 Forbidden Art—2006: A Counteroffensive Defeated
6 Mother of God, Chase Putin Away! The Pussy Riot Case and the Making of the Law on Religious Feelings
7 Russia’s Silent Majority and “the Enemies of the Church”
8 The Aftermath: From the Enactment of the Law on Religious Feelings to the Invasion of Ukraine (2013–2023)
9 A Ukrainian Alternative
Conclusion: The Drama and Tragedy of Russian Desecularization

Acknowledgments
Notes
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