Russia
Russia’s diversity of religious minorities has emerged as a result of imperial expansion, religious dissent from the authority of an autocracy aligned with the dominant church, or through other forms of religious innovation. The very notion of a religious minority (religioznoe men’shinstvo)In this a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Walter De Gruyter GmbH
2024
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Religious minorities online
Year: 2024 |
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| Summary: | Russia’s diversity of religious minorities has emerged as a result of imperial expansion, religious dissent from the authority of an autocracy aligned with the dominant church, or through other forms of religious innovation. The very notion of a religious minority (religioznoe men’shinstvo)In this article I use the Library of Congress Russian transliteration system. in Russia is a function of changing power relations between different groups and movements, whereby one of them is closely connected to the authority of the state. In focusing on the role of the state in defining this minority status and shaping the situation of religious minorities, this contribution considers the impact of the imperial legacy – in particular that of the ‘multi-confessional state’ – and of the state-imposed secularism of the Soviet period, as well of the changing nature of the state in the post-Soviet period. |
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| ISSN: | 2748-1328 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious minorities online
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/rmo.18838634 |