The Second Stage of the “Religious Revival” in Russia: How to Evaluate It from the Perspective of the Secularization Debate
Journal: Religions
Year: 2025

This article focuses on the religious processes in Russia over the last fifteen years. The author has two objectives: on the one hand, to describe processes that can be called the second stage of the “religious revival” in contemporary Russia, and on the other hand, to place them within the context of theoretical discussions on secularization/desecularization. To achieve this goal, this article first examines the question of what secularization and, accordingly, desecularization are. Next, it de