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Secularism Soviet style : teaching atheism and religion in a Volga republic /

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'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luehrmann, Sonja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Colección:New anthropologies of Europe.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0253005426
9780253005427