Secularism Soviet style : teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic
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Secularism Soviet style : teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic
（New anthropologies of Europe / editors, Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Michael Herzfeld）
Indiana University Press, c2011
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"The original archival and interview materials used in this book were predominantly in Russian and to some degree in Mari, a Finno-Ugric language of the Volga-Finnish branch. ... A glossary at the end of the book explains the meaning and origin of Mari and Russian terms." -- p. xiii
Glossary: p. 225-227
Notes: p. 229-243
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-266) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 as solutions to wider social problems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism and Islam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a time when the secularist modernization projects of the 20th century are widely perceived to have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and shared histories of religious and atheist mobilizations.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Names
Introduction: Atheism, Secularity, and Postsecular Religion
I. Affinities
1. Neighbors and Comrades: Secularizing the Mari Country
2. "Go teach:" Methods of Change
II. Promises
3. Church Closings and Sermon Circuits
4. Marginal Lessons
III. Fissures
5. Visual Aid
6. The Soul and the Spirit
IV. Rhythms
7. Lifelong Learning
Conclusion: Affinity and Discernment
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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