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Secularism Soviet style : teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic / Sonja Luehrmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luehrmann, Sonja.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe.
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secularism--Russia (Federation)--Volga-Ural Region.
- Secularism.
- Atheism--Russia (Federation)--Volga-Ural Region.
- Atheism.
- Volga-Ural Region (Russia)--Religion.
- Volga-Ural Region (Russia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 1960's and 1970's 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613528186
- 9781280124327
- 1280124326
- 9780253005427
- 0253005426
- OCLC:
- 775866792
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