Sonja Luehrmann: 2 books
Secularism Soviet Style
Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia’s...
Religion in Secular Archives
Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
What can atheists tell us about religious life? Russian archives contain a wealth of information on religiosity during the Soviet era, but most of it is written from the hostile perspective of officials and scholars charged with promoting atheism. Based on archival research in locations as diverse...