No. 3-4 (30) 2012
Table of Contents
Main Theme
The Evolution of Key Practices
Pre-war Period: Dynamics of Repressions and their Results
- “All Power to the Parish!” An Orthodox Revival in 1920-s
- The Map of Religions for the Failed 1937 Census: a Forgotten Page of Religious Studies in the USSR
- The Princess Olga from Chuvashia: Imposture as a Religious Practice
- “The City without Churches”: Religiosity in Magnitogorsk in 1930-s
- Christian Denominations in Soviet Byelorussia in 1929–1939: Active and Passive Forms of Resistance
Post-war Period: New Forms, Reactions and Influences
- The Restitution of Church Buildings in Leningrad Diocese in Postwar Decade: an Analysis of Believers’ Petitions
- With Icons and Psalms, or a Bishop in Flight from his Flock. Mass Pilgrimages in Russia in the Times of Stalin and Khrushchev
- “With no Preachers, at the Corner of Barracks…” Protestant “Barrack Communities” in Perm’-Kama Region in 1940–1950-s
- Collective Practices of a Typical Community of the Evangelical Baptists in Late USSR
- “Female Mullah”? Women’s Roles in Muslim Religious Practices of Middle Volga Region during the War and Postwar Period
- Two Types of Religiosity in the Times of the Late Socialism: Eastern Orthodox Believers in Vladimir Region
- Religious Practices, Everyday Religiosity and Western Mass Culture in the Closed City of Dniepropetrovsk in Post-Stalin Era (1960–1984)
Religion vs. Atheism: Two Systems of Meaning and Ritual
Conceptions and Methods
- Lived Religion: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Death Rituals in Soviet Ukrainian Borderlands
- What Can We Know about Soviet-era Religiosity? A Comparison of Archival and Oral Sources from the Postwar Volga Region
- The Illness of “the Fund of the Commissioner”: Reflections on the Actual Problems of Research in the Field of Religiosity in the USSR
Book Reviews
- Werth P. Orthodoxy, Other Confessions, and Other Faiths: Essays on the History of Religious Diversity in the Russian Empire. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2012 (In Russian)
- Luehrmann S. Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheismand Religion in a Volga Republic. Indiana University Press, 2011
- Epstein M.N. Russian Spirituality and the Secularization of Culture. USA: Frank-Tireur, 2011
- Shnirelman V. Russian Rodnoverie: Neopaganism and Nationalism in Today’s Russia. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Bibleisko-Bogoslovskogo Instituta, 2012 (In Russian)
- Tul’pe I. Myphology, Art, Religion. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka Publishers, 2012 (In Russian)