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1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Anthropology of religion -- Russia (Federation)
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Social ethics -- Russia (Federation)
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Social values -- Russia (Federation)
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Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Anthropology of religion
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Moral conditions
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Post-communism
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Social conditions
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Social ethics
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Social values
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation) -- Religious life and customs
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Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003718
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Russia (Federation) -- Moral conditions
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zigon, Jarrett, editor.
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| LC no. |
2010052231 |
| ISBN |
9780857452108 |
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085745210X |
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1299777449 |
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9781299777446 |
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