| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
New anthropologies of Europe
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New anthropologies of Europe.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 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 a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Volga-Ural Region (Russia) -- Religion.
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Secularism -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region.
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Secularism. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region. |
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Atheism -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga-Ural Region.
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Atheism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780253356987 0253356989 (DLC) 2011024150 |
| ISBN |
0253005426 electronic book |
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9780253005427 electronic book |
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9780253356987 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0253356989 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780253223555 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0253223555 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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