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Since the disband of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the study of religion in post-communist Russia has become a widely studied area in the social sciences. Previous research has found evidence of significant growth in indicators of religiosity (e.g., church affiliation), but most studies fail to take the next step, and explore religious influence in shaping Russian identity. The goal of this study is to explore Russian religious identity and its relation to Russian ethnic identity. Using a Russian national survey conducted in 2005 (n=2,972), I will analyze indicators of Russian religious and ethnic identity connectedness. This study will provide insight into the role of religion in Russia today, the influence on Russian identity, and what this reality says about the traditionally assumed relationship between modernization and secularization.
The most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken of Jews in Russia and Ukraine show that their sense of Jewishness is powerful but detached from religion. Their understandings of Jewishness differ from those of Jews elsewhere and create tensions in their interactions with other Jews, especially in Israel. This book examines in depth post-Soviet Jews' attitudes toward religion, intermarriage, emigration, anti-Semitism, and rebuilding Jewish life.
Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries. The volume explicitly discusses and compares the role of Russia's two major religions, Orthodoxy and Islam, in forging identity in the modern era and brings an innovative blend of sociological, historical, linguistic and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity. This comprehensive volume is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.
The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating book. Leading international scholars consider the religious and political role of Christian Orthodoxy in the Russian Federation, Romania, Georgia and Ukraine alongside the revival of old, indigenous religions, often referred to as “shamanistic” and look at how, despite Islam’s long history and many adherents in the south, Islamophobic attitudes have increasingly been added to traditional anti-Semitic, anti-Western or anti-liberal elements of Russian nationalism.
More than 160 representatives of different nations and religions inhabit Russia. All the citizens of the country possess equal rights for their cultural, linguistic and religious identity according to the provision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.The issue of ethnic and cultural minorities that is almost equal to the problem of ethnic and cultural communities is becoming a matter of current interest all over the world, especially in Russia where it is closely connected with the growth of ethnic self-identity of the host population and migrants. Post-Soviet territory of our country treats this problem as a very vexed issue because the collapse of the Soviet Union lead to the political problem of citizenship: whether the migrants become those who need naturalization (citizens ready to adopt both culture and language of the host country), temporal residents (labor migrants) or ethnic minorities of the state where they plan to stay and lobby the interests of their motherland.Key factor of the modern geo-political situation of dynamic change of social, cultural, economic relations in Russia and overseas is the formation of ethnic and cultural identity of Russians as the members of the civil culture.The search of common principles of mutual integration such as language, interests of the territory and the community, shared goals are to our opinion the most important for formation of the Russian nation under the modern conditions. Mechanisms of mutual cultural integration aimed at unification of all the Russian citizens will work after the effective implementation of mechanisms of social citizenship making divergent process of interrelations and mutual integration.This approach is bilateral as it changes representatives of all the cultures. This leads to a certain hybridization and legitimate normative culture.One of the main efforts of the regional authorities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation must be the principle of inconsistency of topography of poverty and ethnic map. Ethnic and cultural uniqueness is often realized in countryside, in a town and local society and these small territories are zones of potential social, economic and ethnic and cultural adversity.
This book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries. In light of the tremendous economic, social and political changes in former communist states, the authors compare the values, attitudes and identities of different generations and cultural groups. Based on extensive empirical data, using quantitative and qualitative methods to study complex social identities, this book examines how intergenerational value and identity changes are linked to socio-economic and political development. Topics include the rise of nationalist sentiments, identity formation of ethnic and religious groups and minorities, youth identity formation and intergenerational value conflicts.
From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.