Dissent on the Margins: How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach About It - Softcover

Baran, Emily B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190495499 ISBN 13: 9780190495497

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2016

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Dissent on the Margins is an amazing piece of research and analysis: sophisticated in its conceptualization, exhaustive in its research (in hitherto-secret state, party, and even police archives), this study shows how a small religious group survived decades of Soviet repression, won legalization in 1991, and has since expanded its flock to several hundred thousand adherents. A must-read for historians, political scientists, and sociologists of religion. (Gregory L. Freeze, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History, Brandeis University)

This thoughtful and skillfully researched monograph tells the history of the Jehovah's Witness in the Soviet Union and three of its successor states. It recounts the troubled relationship between state and 'sect,' arguing that the survival of Witness communities shows the limits of state power even in a repressive country like the USSR. The historical sections draw on an impressive, and carefully referenced, body of archival material but Baran also takes her story forward into the first decade of the twenty-first century. It will appeal not only to students of Soviet history but also to all those following the religious situation in the post-Soviet space today. (Miriam Dobson, author of Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin)

Dissent on the Margins offers an excellent contribution to religious studies and serves as a welcome new resource for those interested in the history of lived religion in the Soviet Union. (Kathleen Hiatt, Journal of Church and State)

This impressive book makes an important contribution to a number of bodies of scholarship, including Soviet dissent, religious history in the ussr (Zoe Knox, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review)

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Emily B. Baran offers a gripping history of how a small, American-based religious community, the Jehovah's Witnesses, found its way into the Soviet Union after World War II, survived decades of brutal persecution, and emerged as one of the region's fastest growing religions after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In telling the story of this often misunderstood faith, Baran explores the shifting boundaries of religious dissent, non-conformity, and human rights in the Soviet Union and its successor states.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0190495499
• ISBN 13: 9780190495497
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402