RELIGION AND IDENTITY IN MODERN RUSSIA: THE REVIVAL OF ORTHODOXY AND ISLAM; ED. JULIET JOHNSON.

"Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging, and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries. The volume explicitly discusses and compares the role of Russia's two major religions. Orthodoxy and Islam, in forging identity in the modern era and brings an innovative blend of sociological, historical, linguistic, and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity." -- BOOK JACKET.

Religion and politics

• Religion and Identity in Modern Russia

  Open Access•Benjamin Forest, Juliet Ellen Johnson et al.•BOOK•2005

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  Contents: Religion after Communism: belief, identity, and the Soviet legacy in Russia, Juliet Johnson Ethno-religious identity in modern Russia: orthodoxy and Islam compared, Marietta Stepaniants Orthodoxy, ethnicity, and mass Ethnophobias in the late Tsarist era, Liudmila Gatagova In search of the Idea: a view from inside the Russian Orthodox church, Father Georgii Chistiakov Tolerance and extremism: Russian ethnicity in the Orthodox discourse o…

• Religion and Identity in Modern Russia

  Open Access•Benjamin Forest, Juliet Ellen Johnson et al.•BOOK•2005

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  Contents: Religion after Communism: belief, identity, and the Soviet legacy in Russia, Juliet Johnson Ethno-religious identity in modern Russia: orthodoxy and Islam compared, Marietta Stepaniants Orthodoxy, ethnicity, and mass Ethnophobias in the late Tsarist era, Liudmila Gatagova In search of the Idea: a view from inside the Russian Orthodox church, Father Georgii Chistiakov Tolerance and extremism: Russian ethnicity in the Orthodox discourse o…