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Podlesnaia M.A. Orthodox Religiosity in the Context of Social Changes: a Sociological Reflection on the Life Stories of Believers of the Soviet and Post-Soviet generations: [monograph] ...



Podlesnaia M.A. Orthodox Religiosity in the Context of Social Changes: a Sociological Reflection on the Life Stories of Believers of the Soviet and Post-Soviet generations: [monograph] / M. A. Podlesnaia ; O. V. Aksenova editor’s note ; FCTAS RAS. – Moscow : FCTAS RAS, 2023. – 498 p. URL: https://www.fnisc.ru/publ.html?id=12215
ISBN 978-5-89697-417-8
DOI 10.19181/monogr.978-5-89697-417-8.2023

Posted on site: 04.08.23

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Abstract

The monograph presents the results of sociological reflection on the life stories of believers in the Orthodox religiosity of the Soviet and post-Soviet generations. A comparative analysis is made of how the coming to faith and God was carried out in different generations, how this was influenced by the specifics of the Soviet (atheistic) and post-Soviet times. Along with this, the life paths of the study participants, their implementation and opportunities in the USSR and modern Russia, ethical and aesthetic ideas at the political, economic (labor, consumer, financial ethics), family, and private levels are considered. Appropriate ethics, which were implemented in the USSR and are being implemented in modern Russia, make it possible to assess the active / passive position of the respondents, to see the manifestation of the dialectic of social action among representatives of the Soviet and post-Soviet generations, to single out certain generational features based on this, to look through this prism at the very religiosity. The monograph includes eighteen cases of both representatives of the Soviet generations and post-Soviet (ending with millennials), which allows the reader to turn to these materials as a source of their own thoughts on a given or related topic. The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers interested in issues of Orthodox religiosity in the USSR and modern Russia, aspects of the ethical and aesthetic as basic social categories that influence not only social action in general, but mainly the formation of religiosity in its intersubjectivity.

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