Religious policy in the Soviet Union
Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state was politically and financially weak and its edicts often ignored, but the 1930s saw the beginning of an era of systematic anti-religious persecution. There...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1993.
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| In: | Year: 1993 |
| Further subjects: | B
Soviet Union
Religion
B Soviet Union ; Religion B Church and state Soviet Union B Church and state (Soviet Union) B Church and state ; Soviet Union |
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| Summary: | Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state was politically and financially weak and its edicts often ignored, but the 1930s saw the beginning of an era of systematic anti-religious persecution. There was some relaxation in the last decade of Stalin's rule, but under Khrushchev the pressure on the Church was again stepped up. In the Brezhev period this was moderated to a policy of slow strangulation of religion, and Gorbachev's leadership saw a thorough liberalization and re-legitimation of religion. This 1992 book brings together fifteen of the West's leading scholars of religion in the USSR. Bringing much hitherto unknown material to light, the authors discuss the policy apparatus, programmes of atheisation and socialisation, cults and sects, and the world of Christianity. A survey of Soviet religious policy / Philip Walters -- Religious policy in the era of Gorbachev / Sabrina Petra Ramet -- The Council for Religious Affairs / Otto Luchterhandt -- Some reflections about religious policy under Kharchev / Jane Ellis -- The state, the church, and the oikumene: the Russian Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches, 1948-1985 / J.A. Hebly -- Fear no evil: schools and religion in Soviet Russia, 1917-1941 / Larry E. Holmes -- Soviet schools, atheism and religion / John Dunstan -- The Ten Commandments as values in Soviet people's consciousness / Samuel A. Kliger, Paul H. De Vries -- Out of the kitchen, out of the temple: religion, atheism and women in the Soviet Union / John Anderson -- Dilemmas of the spirit: religion and atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- The spread of modern cults in the USSR / Oxana Antic -- The Russian Orthodox Renovationist Movement and its Russian historiography during the Soviet period / Anatolii Levitin-Krasnov -- The re-emergence of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church in the USSR / Myroslaw Tataryn Protestantism in the USSR / Walter Sawatsky -- Epilogue: religion after the collapse / Sabrina Petra Ramet -- Religious groups numbering 2,000 or more, in the USSR |
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| ISBN: | 0511598270 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511598272 |