Religion and identity in modern Russia : the revival of orthodoxy and Islam

Author(s)

• Johnson, Juliet Ellen
• Stepani︠a︡nt︠s︡, M. T. (Mariėtta Tigranovna)
• Forest, Benjamin

Bibliographic Information

Religion and identity in modern Russia : the revival of orthodoxy and Islam

edited by Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest

（Post-Soviet politics / series editor, Neil Robinson）

Routledge, 2016, c2005

• : hbk

Note

"First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. This comprehensive volume is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.

Table of Contents

• 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 "Russian Idea": a view from inside the Russian Orthodox church, Father Georgii Chistiakov
• Tolerance and extremism: Russian ethnicity in the Orthodox discourse of the 1990s, Svetlana Ryzhova
• Islam and the emergence of Tatar National identity, Aidar Yuzeev
• Islam and the construction of Tatar sociolinguistic identity, Suzanne Wertheim
• The Ponticization of Ethnic religious identity in Dagestan, Zagir Arukhov
• Modern identities in Russia: a new struggle for the soul?, Juliet Johnson
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC16883001
• ISBN:
  • 9780754642725
• LCCN: 2005000968
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 149 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA69939631