TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zigon,Jarrett
TI  - Multiple moralities and religions in post-Soviet Russia
SN  - 9780857452108
AV  - GN585.R9 M85 2011eb
U1  - 306.60947 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Anthropology of religion
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - Social values
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Anthropologie religieuse
KW  - Russie
KW  - Valeurs sociales
KW  - Postcommunisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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