Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union

Barbara Martin is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Basel, Switzerland Nadezhda Beliakova is a a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bielefeld, Germany

List of Figures

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Introduction






Change of Ritual Practice under Communism: the Case of the Russian Orthodox Church in Soviet Ukraine in the late 1950s – early 1970s - Natalia Shlikhta



The Erosion of Tradition. Life Cycle Rites among the Orthodox in the Prikam’e Region (1950s-1980s) - Svetlana Riazanova



The Rybnitser Rebbe and Underground Jewish Religious Life in the Soviet town of Rybnitsa (1960s – 1970s) - Maria Kaspina



Funeral and Memorial Rites of Moscow Muslims in the 1960s-1980s - Islam Zaripov and Marat Safarov



The Boundaries of Legality as an Approach to the Study of Soviet Religious Policy: the Case of Evangelical Christians-Baptists - Johannes Dyck



Trying to leave the Religious Underground. Registration of Catholic communities in late Soviet Kazakhstan - Jerzy Rohozinski



The Activism of Soviet Pentecostals in the 1960s – 1980s - Vera Kliueva



Gender specificity of protest activism in unregistered groups of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in the late Soviet Union - Nadezhda Beliakova



A Christian feminism in the USSR? A historical overview of the religious women’s club "Mariia" (1980-1982) - Anna Sidorevich



Startsy, samizdat and underground seminars: the religious life of young Russian Orthodox converts in the 1970s-1980s - Barbara Martin



Anatolii Vaneev's circle as a phenomenon of informal church community in Leningrad in the 1970s-1980s. - Anna Lepekina



Longing for Truth, Morality, and Enchantment: Late Soviet Spiritual Searches and Journeys to Islam, 1970s-1980s - Eva Rogaar



The Entry of Indian Spiritual Movements into the Cultural Space of Soviet Latvia in the 1970s-80s - Solveiga Krumina-Konkova



Astrological samizdat in the context of (post-)Soviet esoteric culture - Anna Tessman

Index