Vyacheslav Karpov
Biographic Data
| ID | 227528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vyacheslav Karpov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vyacheslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Karpov |
| SIGNATURE | KARPOV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
In Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost , Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder demonstrate how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion and why, in contrast, religious pluralism and tolerance have solidified in Ukraine. Offering a richly documented history of cultural and political struggles that surrounded desecularization—the resurgence of religion’s societal role—from the end of the USSR to the Russo-Ukrainian war, they …
The Coexistence of Faith and Reason
The Post-Secular Society is a project put forward by Habermas as a critique of modern secularism. Habermas envisions this project as a via media—a mediating force between religious fundamentalism and excessive secularism. He argues that religious citizens can translate their religious discourses into a generally-accessible language that would enable them to discuss and communicate with their secular counterparts. This theory provides itself as an…
Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration
Russian Education Thirty Years Later
How and why did Russian education go from the enthusiastic liberalization in the early 1990s to the restoration of a Soviet-style system in the new century? Attempting to answer this question, we r
The Social Dynamics of Russia’s Desecularisation
This article approaches Russia’s desecularisation from a comparative and theoretical perspective. For this purpose, it applies to the Russian case a conceptual framework designed for comparative studies of the world’s many counter-secularisations, and as a result it offers a theoretical model to explain the social dynamics of Russia’s desecularisation. The model reveals a chain of causal links extending from initial conditions for desecularisatio…
The Crimes and Punishments of the ‘Enemies of the Church’ and the Nature of Russia’s Desecularising Regime 1
Following a longstanding sociological tradition, this paper looks at reactions to nonconformity in order to understand the nature of social norms. In particular, it explores the patterns and scope of intolerance towards the perceived ‘enemies of the Church’ in order to understand social norms emerging in post-atheist Russia. Utilising the ‘social drama’ approach, the paper offers a comparative case study of increasingly repressive reactions by th…
Ethnodoxy
Popular beliefs conflating ethnic identities with particular faiths can lead to marginalization of religiously and ethnically 'other' and fuel ethnoreligious conflict even in secularized societies. Despite their importance to ethnoreligious conflict and coexistence, ideological conflations of faith and ethnos have previously received little scholarly attention. We fill the gap by introducing the concept of ethnodoxy: a collectively held belief sy…
Orthodoxy, Islam, and the Desecularization of Russia's State Schools
This article explores the social origins and consequences of Orthodox-Muslim tensions surrounding the attempts to find a place for religion in Russia's state schools. It demonstrates that the Orthodox-Muslim tensions are an inevitable outcome of what we define as Russia's pattern of “desecularization from above.” The attempts to restore religious education are carried out by alliances of top religious and political elites, which almost by default…
Desecularization
It has been more than a decade since Peter Berger famously introduced the concept of desecularization to denote a variety of manifestations of the worldwide resurgence of religion. He described desecularization as counter-secularization and offered an innovative view of the vitality of religion vis-a-vis global modernity. Studying the interplay of secularizing and counter-secularizing trends and forces, Berger wrote, is a most important task of t…
Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia1
Religious intolerance (the unwillingness to grant religious liberties to other faiths) among Russia's Orthodox Christians and Muslims is widespread, as our 2005 national survey data (2972 interviews) show. The intolerance is strongest among the Orthodox in the largely non-Muslim areas of Russia and among both faith groups in the conflict-torn Caucasus. Mutual tolerance is highest in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. The intolerance has more to do with…
The Landscape of Interfaith Intolerance in Post-Atheist Russia
The officially atheist Soviet Union did not tolerate any open manifestations of faith except for the rare ones it overtly allowed and covertly controlled. Since all religions were almost entirely suppressed from above, there were no visible manifestations of inter-religious intolerance “from below,” i.e. among the adherents of different faiths. Yet our paper shows that in less than two decades after the demise of the Soviet state and its official…
Religiosity and Tolerance in the United States and Poland
Survey research shows important links between religion and tolerance in the United States. Yet it is not known to what extent its findings have broader, cross-national relevance. This article compares religious influences on political tolerance in the United States and Poland. Despite the marked political and cultural differences between their national contexts, data from the NORC GSS and Polish GSS reveal similar patterns of religious influences…
The Perplexed World of Russian Private Schools
Based on field research conducted in 1997-98 in St Petersburg, Russia, this paper explores the contemporary status and viability of the postcommunist elementary and secondary private schools. Findings from in-depth qualitative interviews, observations and analysis of documents suggest that the Russian private schools find themselves in a perplexed and precarious situation. Although formally legalised, they operate amidst the anomic situation of l…
Religiosity and Political Tolerance in Poland
Journal Article Religiosity and Political Tolerance in Poland Get access Vyacheslav Karpov Vyacheslav Karpov * Western Michigan University * Direct correspondence to Vyacheslav Karpov, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 4, Winter 1999, Pages 387–402, https://doi.org/10…
Political Tolerance in Poland and the United States
Some experts say that in Eastern Europe, under the surface of pro-democratic attitudes, persists an authoritarian and intolerant political culture. Synchronic and diachronic comparisons of tolerance in Poland (1993 Polish General Social Survey, N = 1649) and the U.S. (1954 Stouffer's data and NORC GSS data, 1972–93) do not support this view. Polish opinions appear nearly as tolerant as contemporary American opinions, and more tolerant than Americ…
Ethnodoxy
Popular beliefs conflating ethnic identities with particular faiths can lead to marginalization of religiously and ethnically 'other' and fuel ethnoreligious conflict even in secularized societies. Despite their importance to ethnoreligious conflict and coexistence, ideological conflations of faith and ethnos have previously received little scholarly attention. We fill the gap by introducing the concept of ethnodoxy: a collectively held belief sy…
Desecularization
It has been more than a decade since Peter Berger famously introduced the concept of desecularization to denote a variety of manifestations of the worldwide resurgence of religion. He described desecularization as counter-secularization and offered an innovative view of the vitality of religion vis-a-vis global modernity. Studying the interplay of secularizing and counter-secularizing trends and forces, Berger wrote, is a most important task of t…
Religiosity and Tolerance in the United States and Poland
Survey research shows important links between religion and tolerance in the United States. Yet it is not known to what extent its findings have broader, cross-national relevance. This article compares religious influences on political tolerance in the United States and Poland. Despite the marked political and cultural differences between their national contexts, data from the NORC GSS and Polish GSS reveal similar patterns of religious influences…
Orthodoxy, Islam, and the Desecularization of Russia's State Schools
This article explores the social origins and consequences of Orthodox-Muslim tensions surrounding the attempts to find a place for religion in Russia's state schools. It demonstrates that the Orthodox-Muslim tensions are an inevitable outcome of what we define as Russia's pattern of “desecularization from above.” The attempts to restore religious education are carried out by alliances of top religious and political elites, which almost by default…
The Social Dynamics of Russia’s Desecularisation
This article approaches Russia’s desecularisation from a comparative and theoretical perspective. For this purpose, it applies to the Russian case a conceptual framework designed for comparative studies of the world’s many counter-secularisations, and as a result it offers a theoretical model to explain the social dynamics of Russia’s desecularisation. The model reveals a chain of causal links extending from initial conditions for desecularisatio…
Religiosity and Political Tolerance in Poland
Journal Article Religiosity and Political Tolerance in Poland Get access Vyacheslav Karpov Vyacheslav Karpov * Western Michigan University * Direct correspondence to Vyacheslav Karpov, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 4, Winter 1999, Pages 387–402, https://doi.org/10…
Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia1
Religious intolerance (the unwillingness to grant religious liberties to other faiths) among Russia's Orthodox Christians and Muslims is widespread, as our 2005 national survey data (2972 interviews) show. The intolerance is strongest among the Orthodox in the largely non-Muslim areas of Russia and among both faith groups in the conflict-torn Caucasus. Mutual tolerance is highest in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. The intolerance has more to do with…
Political Tolerance in Poland and the United States
Some experts say that in Eastern Europe, under the surface of pro-democratic attitudes, persists an authoritarian and intolerant political culture. Synchronic and diachronic comparisons of tolerance in Poland (1993 Polish General Social Survey, N = 1649) and the U.S. (1954 Stouffer's data and NORC GSS data, 1972–93) do not support this view. Polish opinions appear nearly as tolerant as contemporary American opinions, and more tolerant than Americ…
The Perplexed World of Russian Private Schools
Based on field research conducted in 1997-98 in St Petersburg, Russia, this paper explores the contemporary status and viability of the postcommunist elementary and secondary private schools. Findings from in-depth qualitative interviews, observations and analysis of documents suggest that the Russian private schools find themselves in a perplexed and precarious situation. Although formally legalised, they operate amidst the anomic situation of l…
The Crimes and Punishments of the ‘Enemies of the Church’ and the Nature of Russia’s Desecularising Regime 1
Following a longstanding sociological tradition, this paper looks at reactions to nonconformity in order to understand the nature of social norms. In particular, it explores the patterns and scope of intolerance towards the perceived ‘enemies of the Church’ in order to understand social norms emerging in post-atheist Russia. Utilising the ‘social drama’ approach, the paper offers a comparative case study of increasingly repressive reactions by th…
The Landscape of Interfaith Intolerance in Post-Atheist Russia
The officially atheist Soviet Union did not tolerate any open manifestations of faith except for the rare ones it overtly allowed and covertly controlled. Since all religions were almost entirely suppressed from above, there were no visible manifestations of inter-religious intolerance “from below,” i.e. among the adherents of different faiths. Yet our paper shows that in less than two decades after the demise of the Soviet state and its official…
Russian Education Thirty Years Later
How and why did Russian education go from the enthusiastic liberalization in the early 1990s to the restoration of a Soviet-style system in the new century? Attempting to answer this question, we r
Religiosity and Political Tolerance in Poland
Journal Article Religiosity and Political Tolerance in Poland Get access Vyacheslav Karpov Vyacheslav Karpov * Western Michigan University * Direct correspondence to Vyacheslav Karpov, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 4, Winter 1999, Pages 387–402, https://doi.org/10…
Political Tolerance in Poland and the United States
Some experts say that in Eastern Europe, under the surface of pro-democratic attitudes, persists an authoritarian and intolerant political culture. Synchronic and diachronic comparisons of tolerance in Poland (1993 Polish General Social Survey, N = 1649) and the U.S. (1954 Stouffer's data and NORC GSS data, 1972–93) do not support this view. Polish opinions appear nearly as tolerant as contemporary American opinions, and more tolerant than Americ…
The Perplexed World of Russian Private Schools
Based on field research conducted in 1997-98 in St Petersburg, Russia, this paper explores the contemporary status and viability of the postcommunist elementary and secondary private schools. Findings from in-depth qualitative interviews, observations and analysis of documents suggest that the Russian private schools find themselves in a perplexed and precarious situation. Although formally legalised, they operate amidst the anomic situation of l…
Religiosity and Tolerance in the United States and Poland
Survey research shows important links between religion and tolerance in the United States. Yet it is not known to what extent its findings have broader, cross-national relevance. This article compares religious influences on political tolerance in the United States and Poland. Despite the marked political and cultural differences between their national contexts, data from the NORC GSS and Polish GSS reveal similar patterns of religious influences…
The Landscape of Interfaith Intolerance in Post-Atheist Russia
The officially atheist Soviet Union did not tolerate any open manifestations of faith except for the rare ones it overtly allowed and covertly controlled. Since all religions were almost entirely suppressed from above, there were no visible manifestations of inter-religious intolerance “from below,” i.e. among the adherents of different faiths. Yet our paper shows that in less than two decades after the demise of the Soviet state and its official…
Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia1
Religious intolerance (the unwillingness to grant religious liberties to other faiths) among Russia's Orthodox Christians and Muslims is widespread, as our 2005 national survey data (2972 interviews) show. The intolerance is strongest among the Orthodox in the largely non-Muslim areas of Russia and among both faith groups in the conflict-torn Caucasus. Mutual tolerance is highest in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. The intolerance has more to do with…
Orthodoxy, Islam, and the Desecularization of Russia's State Schools
This article explores the social origins and consequences of Orthodox-Muslim tensions surrounding the attempts to find a place for religion in Russia's state schools. It demonstrates that the Orthodox-Muslim tensions are an inevitable outcome of what we define as Russia's pattern of “desecularization from above.” The attempts to restore religious education are carried out by alliances of top religious and political elites, which almost by default…
Desecularization
It has been more than a decade since Peter Berger famously introduced the concept of desecularization to denote a variety of manifestations of the worldwide resurgence of religion. He described desecularization as counter-secularization and offered an innovative view of the vitality of religion vis-a-vis global modernity. Studying the interplay of secularizing and counter-secularizing trends and forces, Berger wrote, is a most important task of t…
Ethnodoxy
Popular beliefs conflating ethnic identities with particular faiths can lead to marginalization of religiously and ethnically 'other' and fuel ethnoreligious conflict even in secularized societies. Despite their importance to ethnoreligious conflict and coexistence, ideological conflations of faith and ethnos have previously received little scholarly attention. We fill the gap by introducing the concept of ethnodoxy: a collectively held belief sy…
The Social Dynamics of Russia’s Desecularisation
This article approaches Russia’s desecularisation from a comparative and theoretical perspective. For this purpose, it applies to the Russian case a conceptual framework designed for comparative studies of the world’s many counter-secularisations, and as a result it offers a theoretical model to explain the social dynamics of Russia’s desecularisation. The model reveals a chain of causal links extending from initial conditions for desecularisatio…
The Crimes and Punishments of the ‘Enemies of the Church’ and the Nature of Russia’s Desecularising Regime 1
Following a longstanding sociological tradition, this paper looks at reactions to nonconformity in order to understand the nature of social norms. In particular, it explores the patterns and scope of intolerance towards the perceived ‘enemies of the Church’ in order to understand social norms emerging in post-atheist Russia. Utilising the ‘social drama’ approach, the paper offers a comparative case study of increasingly repressive reactions by th…
Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration
Russian Education Thirty Years Later
How and why did Russian education go from the enthusiastic liberalization in the early 1990s to the restoration of a Soviet-style system in the new century? Attempting to answer this question, we r
The Coexistence of Faith and Reason
The Post-Secular Society is a project put forward by Habermas as a critique of modern secularism. Habermas envisions this project as a via media—a mediating force between religious fundamentalism and excessive secularism. He argues that religious citizens can translate their religious discourses into a generally-accessible language that would enable them to discuss and communicate with their secular counterparts. This theory provides itself as an…
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
In Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost , Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder demonstrate how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion and why, in contrast, religious pluralism and tolerance have solidified in Ukraine. Offering a richly documented history of cultural and political struggles that surrounded desecularization—the resurgence of religion’s societal role—from the end of the USSR to the Russo-Ukrainian war, they …
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