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Informationen zum Autor Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and editor of Slavic Review. He is editor (with Heather J. Coleman) of Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia (IUP, 2007). Catherine Wanner is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and is author of Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism. Klappentext Among the important questions considered are how religion addresses problems of charity, memory, justice, community, morality, nationalism, democracy, and civil liberties. Zusammenfassung The resurgent role of religion in post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Reclaiming the Sacred After Communism 1. To Save the World or to Renounce It: Modes of Moral Action in Russian Orthodoxy Scott M. Kenworthy 2. The Freezing of Historical Memory? The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church and the Council of 1917 Irina Papkova 3. Aleksandra Vladimirovna: Moral Narratives of a Russian Orthodox Woman Jarrett Zigon 4. Old Belief Between "Society" and "Culture": Remaking Moral Communities and Inequalities on a Former State Farm Douglas Rogers 5. Communities of Mourning: Mountain Jewish Laments in Azerbaijan and on the Internet Sascha Goluboff 6. Social Welfare and Christian Welfare: Who Gets Saved in Post-Soviet Russian Charity Work? Melissa L. Caldwell 7. Shamanic Transformations: Buriat Shamans as Mediators of Multiple Worlds Katherine Metzo 8. Fearing Islam in Uzbekistan: Islamic Tendencies, Extremist Violence, and Authoritarian Secularism Russell Zanca 9. Religious Freedom in Russia: The Putin Years Zoe Knox 10. Afterword: Policy Implications of the Research and Analysis Further Reading
