Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia / / ed. by Jarrett Zigon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Agadjanian, Alexander,; Caldwell, Melissa L.,; Kormina, Jeanne,; Köllner, Tobias,; Panchenko, Alexander A.,; Raubisko, Ieva,; Rousselet, Kathy,; Shtyrkov, Sergey,; Tocheva, Detelina,; Wanner, Catherine,; Zigon, Jarrett,; Ładykowska, Agata,
• HerausgeberIn: Zigon, Jarrett,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Julkaisuvuosi: 2011
• Kieli: English
• Ulkoasu: 1 online resource (244 p.)

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 business practices. The influence of religion is also apparent in the way in which the Russian Orthodox Church increasingly acts as the moral voice of the government. The wide-ranging topics in this ethnographically based volume show the broad religious influence on both discursive and everyday moralities. The contributors reveal that although religion is a significant aspect of the various assemblages of morality, much like in other parts of the world, religion in postsocialist Russia cannot be separated from the political or economic or transnational institutional aspects of morality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of 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 Th inking among Russian Middle-aged School Teachers -- CHAPTER 4 Th e 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 -- CHAPTER 6 “A Lot of Blood Is Unrevenged Here”: Moral Disintegration in Post-War Chechnya -- CHAPTER 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 Suff ering: 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 Notes on Contributors -- Index