Multiple moralities and religions in post-Soviet Russia
By: edited Jarrett Zigon
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780857452092; 9780857452108
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Post-communism; Social conditions; Social values; Moral conditions; Anthropology of religion; Social ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multiple moralities: discourse, pratices, and breakdowns in post-Soviet Russia / Jarrett Zigon; title: Exploring Russian religiosity as a source of morality today / Alexander Agadjanian; title: Post-Soviet orthodoxy in the making: strategies for continuity thinking among Russian middle-aged school teachers / Agata Ladykowska; title: The politics of rightness: social justice among Russia's christian communities / Melissa L. Caldwell; title: An ethos of relatedness: foreign aid and grassroots charities in two orthodox parishes in North-Western Russia / Detelina Tocheva; title: "A lot of blood is unrevenged here": moral disintegration in post-war Chechnya / Ieva Raubisko; title: Morality, utopia, discipline: new religious movements and Soviet culture / Alexander A. Panchenko; title: Constructing moralities around the Tsarist family / Kathy Rousselet; title: St. Xenia as a patron of female social suffrage: an essay on anthropological hagiology / Jeanne Kormina and Sergey Shtyrkov; title: Built with gold or tears? Moral discourses on church construction and the role of entrepreneurial donations / Tobias Köllner