Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic

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Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a societywithout gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival.Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s withethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia's Volgaregion, Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religiouspractice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies of atheistpropaganda is a widespread didactic orientation among the population and a faith instandardized programs of personal transformation as solutions to wider socialproblems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism andIslam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a timewhen the secularist modernization projects of the 20th century are widely perceivedto have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and sharedhistories of religious and atheist mobilizations.

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