In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept,
open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian
Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of
various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral
discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This
influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context,
religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the
relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the
construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and
social health, and business practices. The influence of religion is
also apparent in the way in which the Russian Orthodox Church
increasingly acts as the moral voice of the government. The
wide-ranging topics in this ethnographically based volume show the
broad religious influence on both discursive and everyday
moralities. The contributorsa reveal that although religion is a
significant aspect of the various assemblages of morality, much
like in other parts of the world, religion in postsocialist Russia
cannot be separated from the political or economic or transnational
institutional aspects of morality."
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