Christian Religion in the Soviet Union
| Titel: | Christian Religion in the Soviet Union : a sociological study / by Christel Lane |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London [u.a.] : Allen & Unwin, 1978 |
| Umfang: | 256 S. : Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0043010849 |
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- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1
- Introduction
- Methodological considerations
- Theoretical perspectives
- Historical antecedents
- 2
- The Russian Orthodox Church I
- The Church in the sixties and seventies
- Socio-demographic distribution and social composition of membership
- Organisational structure and religious functionaries
- 3
- The Russian Orthodox Church II
- Dimensions of religious commitment among contemporary Russian Orthodox
- Some explanations for the persistence of Orthodox religion
- 4
- Orthodox Sects of the Soviet Period
- True Orthodox Christians
- 5
- The Old Russian Sects
- The Khlysts
- The Skoptsy
- The Dukhobors
- The Molokans
- 6
- Old Believers
- Historical development and present trends
- Sociopolitical responses of Old Believers
- The social composition of Old Believers
- The nature of religious commitment among Old Believers
- 7
- Baptists
- Sect membership
- 'Sect'-like and 'denominational' tendencies
- The schism in 1961 and the emergence of the Initsiativniks
- The socio-demographic distribution and social composition of Baptists
- The socio-demographic distribution and social composition of the Initsiativnik sect
- Explanations of the schism
- The moral community
- 8
- The Smaller Sects of Western Origin
- Seventh Day Adventists
- Pentecostalists
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- 9
- Religion and Nationality I
- Lutherans and Mennonites
- 10
- Religion and Nationality II
- The Roman Catholic Church
- The Lithuanian Catholic Church
- 11
- Conclusion
- Types of religious collectivities and their development
- The incidence and social distribution of religiosity in Soviet society
- Qualitative changes in religious ideology, organisation and individual religiosity
- Appendix A
- List 1
- Registered urban congregations of the AUCECB
- List 2
- Geographical distribution of Initsiativniks
- Appendix B
- The organisational strength of the Roman Catholic Church in the Soviet Union (except Lithuania)
- References
- Index
