THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE SOVIET UNION: HOW AND WHY DOES IT DIFFER?(1)
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 January 1982
Abstract
Acounts of new religious movements have been almost exclusively about those which have arisen in the last two decades in the most advanced capitalist societies, and theoretical explanations of their emergence and spread have very firmly connected them with the material standard and social ethos of that type of society. Although there have been significant new developments in the religious life of Soviet society there have been no religious movements forming such a radical break with the old religious life as those found in the West. In this article I shall be concerned with firstly, giving a brief outline of those transformations which have occurred in the religious life of Soviet society. Secondly, I shall show how and why they differ from the New Religious Movements in the West. I shall investigate in some detail why the latter could not and will not in the near future, take root in Soviet society.
Citation
Lane, C. (1982), "THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE SOVIET UNION: HOW AND WHY DOES IT DIFFER?(1)", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 44-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012941
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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