Competing Moral Discourses in Russia: Soviet Legacy and Post-Soviet Controversies

Stepanova, Elena

doi:10.1080/21567689.2019.1656070

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“…The training of Muslim clergy was allowed in a very limited amount (Hager, 2019). In 1968, the Tashkent meeting of the Commissioners of the Council for Religious Affairs was Khussainova, Dyussenova, Simitikov, Zhalmaganbetova, and Nuralina 647 journals.tplondon.com/ml held (Oppenheim, 1974;Stepanova, 2019). The commissioners in the regions and local authorities were instructed to scrutinise clerics, religious institutions, associations and be aware of all aspects of their activities (Hager, 2019).…”

Section: New Religious Policymentioning

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The Influence of the Soviet Regime on the Religious Beliefs of Ethnic Minorities

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This article explores the development of religious relations in modern post-Soviet republics with reference to mobility and the imprint of the influence of the Soviet regime. Populations with different religious beliefs in Kazakhstan are reflective of the country’s geographical position and the migrations and deportations during the Soviet regime. This article aims to identify and reveal the processes of transformation of religious thinking and beliefs of ethnic minorities in the USSR, as well as to uncover the notion of transformation of ethnic identity and self-consciousness. The leading approaches to the study of this topic are the descriptive method, the method of historiographical analysis and synthesis, as well as the problem-chronological approach. In addition, the article presents an analysis of various normative acts, examines the development of the Soviet regime’s pressure on religious institutions and organisations of national minorities.

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Section: New Religious Policymentioning

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The Influence of the Soviet Regime on the Religious Beliefs of Ethnic Minorities

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“…There are public and academic groups that represent Russia's history in conflicting ways. The politically promoted mainstream vogue is stressing the cross-cutting impact of Christian roots and religious continuity; constructing an idealized post-memory of presecularized (pre-revolutionary) Russia while downplaying or demonizing secularization; the promotion of a so-called 'traditional morality' ('values') which is often related to religious norms (Agadjanian, 2017;Stepanova, 2019). These ideas find a certain reflection in some important politics-related events.…”

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From urban landscape to national culture: Russia’s conspicuous religious simulacra and enduring, if fragile, secularity

Agadjanian

2021

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This article considers the place religion holds in post-Soviet Russian society, and most importantly, the case of the dominant Russian Orthodoxy. It shows that the gap between low everyday religiosity and high public profile of religion is the key to a specific Russian version of secularity. How religion’s spectacular appropriation of physical and social space, up to the imaginative space of the national culture as such, does not cancel the strong counterweight of deeply ingrained secular cultural arrangements – either genetically linked to some European variations or specifically related to (post)communist experience.

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“…The concept of "traditional values" promoted by the ROC has become the subject of thorough critical analysis (see : Agadjanian 2017;Bluhm and Brand 2019;Curanović 2015;Elsner 2019;du Quenoy and Dubrovskiy 2018;Stepanova 2015Stepanova , 2019Stoeckl 2016Stoeckl , 2017Stoeckl , 2020. As Kristina Stoeckl argues, in the sphere of values the top management of the ROC tend to play the role of the "moral norms entrepreneurs", on the international and national arena (Stoeckl 2016).…”

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“Everything good against everything bad”: traditional values in the search for new Russian national idea

Stepanova

2022

Z Religion Ges Polit

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The purpose of the article is to explore origins, development and meaning of the Russian Orthodox Church's concept of traditional values in comparison with its interpreting and utilizing by the Russian political powers through the analysis of the main statements of the ROC's hierarchs, as well as of leading political figures in the period 2000s until nowadays. The following research questions are formulated: What are traditional values in the ROC's and state understanding, and what is the purpose of their promotion? What is the impact of traditional values discourse over people? The conclusion is made that traditional values are seen as one of substantial elements of the present-day Russian political and ideological conservatism and the core element of the identity construction. The ROC as the prominent and influential religious body is seen by political powers, as well as by general public, to be most notably linked to morality; and she seems to take for granted the status of moral authority. At the same time, there is a lack of reliable data, which make possible to estimate the real impact of traditional values over Russian people and the amount of those who share them.

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Competing Moral Discourses in Russia: Soviet Legacy and Post-Soviet Controversies

Cited by 8 publications

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The Influence of the Soviet Regime on the Religious Beliefs of Ethnic Minorities

The Influence of the Soviet Regime on the Religious Beliefs of Ethnic Minorities

From urban landscape to national culture: Russia’s conspicuous religious simulacra and enduring, if fragile, secularity

“Everything good against everything bad”: traditional values in the search for new Russian national idea

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