Religious Revival and its Limitations in the Postwar Soviet Union: The Case of Northern Kazakhstan
Journal: Studia Religiologica
Year: 2024

The subject of the paper is the religious revival in the post-war USSR, understood as the limited return of religious practices to the public space, marked by an effort to officially register a religious community. Two types of such revival could be observed in northern Kazakhstan: one on the wave of patriotic intensification of the “Great Patriotic War;” the impetus for the other being the gradual liberalization and abolition of the Gulag system after 1956. The first type was characterized by a