Religious Policy in the Soviet Union

Table of Contents

Preface Sabrina Petra Ramet
Part I. Introduction:
1. A survey of Soviet religious policy Philip Walters
2. Religious policy in the era of Gorbachev Sabrina Petra Ramet

Part II. Policy Apparatus:
3. The Council for Religious Affairs Otto Luchterhandt
4. Some reflections about religious policy under Kharchev Jane Ellis
5. The state, the church, and the oikumene: the Russian Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches, 1948–85 J. A. Hebly
Part III. Education, Socialisation, and Values:
6. Fear no evil: schools and religion in Soviet Russia, 1917–41 Larry E. Holmes
7. Soviet schools, atheism and religion John Dunstan
8. The Ten Commandments as values in Soviet people's consciousness Sameul A. Kliger and Paul H. De Vries
9. Out of the kitchen, out of the temple: religion, atheism and women in the Soviet Union John Anderson
Part IV. Cults and Sects:
10. Dilemmas of the spirit: religion and atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
11. The spread of modern cults in the USSR Oxana Antic
Part V. The World of Christianity:
12. The Russian Orthodox Renovationist Movement and its Russian historiography during the Soviet period Anatolii Levitin-Krasnov
13. The re-emergence of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church in the USSR Myroslaw Tataryn
14. Protestantism in the USSR Walter Sawatsky
15. Epilogue: religion after the collapse Sabrina Petra Ramet
Appendix
Index.

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