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Multiple moralities and religions in post-Soviet Russia / edited Jarrett Zigon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780857452108
  • 085745210X
  • 1299777449
  • 9781299777446
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Multiple moralities and religions in post-Soviet Russia.DDC classification:
  • 306.60947 22
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  • GN585.R9 M85 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Illustrations and Tables; Part I -- Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Multiple Moralities: Discourses, Practices, and Breakdowns in Post-Soviet Russia; Chapter 2 -- Exploring Russian Religiosity as a Source of Morality Today; Part II -- Multiple Moralities; Chapter 3 -- Post-Soviet Orthodoxy in the Making: Strategies for Continuity Thinking among Russian Middle-aged School Teachers; Chapter 4 -- The Politics of Rightness: Social Justice among Russia's Christian Communities; Chapter 5 -- An Ethos of Relatedness: Foreign Aid and Grassroots Charities in Two Orthodox Parishes in North-Western Russia.
Chapter 6 -- ""A Lot of Blood Is Unrevenged Here"": Moral Disintegration in Post-War ChechnyaChapter 7 -- Morality, Utopia, Discipline: New Religious Movements and Soviet Culture; Chapter 8 -- Constructing Moralities around the Tsarist Family; Chapter 9 -- St. Xenia as a Patron of Female Social Suffering: An Essay on Anthropological Hagiology; Chapter 10 -- Built with Gold or Tears? Moral Discourses on Church Construction and the Role of Entrepreneurial Donations; Afterword -- Multiple Moralities, Multiple Secularisms; Notes on Contributors; Index.
Summary: In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and social health, and bu.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)630180

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Illustrations and Tables; Part I -- Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Multiple Moralities: Discourses, Practices, and Breakdowns in Post-Soviet Russia; Chapter 2 -- Exploring Russian Religiosity as a Source of Morality Today; Part II -- Multiple Moralities; Chapter 3 -- Post-Soviet Orthodoxy in the Making: Strategies for Continuity Thinking among Russian Middle-aged School Teachers; Chapter 4 -- The Politics of Rightness: Social Justice among Russia's Christian Communities; Chapter 5 -- An Ethos of Relatedness: Foreign Aid and Grassroots Charities in Two Orthodox Parishes in North-Western Russia.

Chapter 6 -- ""A Lot of Blood Is Unrevenged Here"": Moral Disintegration in Post-War ChechnyaChapter 7 -- Morality, Utopia, Discipline: New Religious Movements and Soviet Culture; Chapter 8 -- Constructing Moralities around the Tsarist Family; Chapter 9 -- St. Xenia as a Patron of Female Social Suffering: An Essay on Anthropological Hagiology; Chapter 10 -- Built with Gold or Tears? Moral Discourses on Church Construction and the Role of Entrepreneurial Donations; Afterword -- Multiple Moralities, Multiple Secularisms; Notes on Contributors; Index.

In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and social health, and bu.