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The Dangerous God : Christianity and the Soviet Experiment /
At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spirit...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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DeKalb :
Northern Illinois University Press,
2017.
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| Édition: | First [edition]. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION The Rhythm of the Saints
- 1 EMPOWERING THE FAITHFUL. The Unintended Consequences of Bolshevik Religious Policies
- 2 COMBATING GOD AND GRANDMA. The Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and the Battle for Childhood
- 3 PERSECUTION, COLLUSION, AND LIBERATION The Russian Orthodox Church, from Stalin to Gorbachev
- 4 "I AM A FIGHTER BY NATURE" Fr. Gleb Iakunin and the Defense of Religious Liberty
- 5 "AN INWARD MUSIC" Revolution and Resurrection in Doctor Zhivago
- 6 "THE PEARL OF AN UNREASONABLE THOUGHT" Religion and the Poetic Imagination
- 7 "I HASTEN TO ESTABLISH A COMMON LANGUAGE WITH YOU" Orthodox Christian Dissidents and the Human Rights Movement
- 8 THE ORTHODOX LITURGY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE
- 9 "AND I WILL TELL OF THE BEST PEOPLE IN ALL THE EARTH" Faith and Resilience in the Gulag
- 10 "THERE ARE THINGS IN HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CALLED BY THEIR PROPER NAMES" Evaluating Russian Orthodox Collaboration with the Soviet State
- 11 THE USEFUL GOD Religion and Public Authority in Post -Soviet Russia
- AFTERWORD Whether in Words or Deeds, Known and Unknown
- Contributors
- Notes
- Index