What were American evangelicals doing in Russian public schools?
Actually, the Russian Ministry of Education had invited them. Faced
with the need for new approaches to moral education after the
demise of communism, the Russian Ministry of Education turned to a
group of Western evangelical Christians called the CoMission for
help. Oddly enough, a government that had promoted atheism,
destroyed churches, and persecuted Christians for more than seventy
years now found itself partnering with Christians to train their
educators to teach ethics.
This book not only tells the story of this odd educational
enterprise and its ultimate outcome, but it also explores the
questions that such a groundbreaking project inevitably raises.
What led post-communist educators to seek help with moral education
from Western Christians? How did the Russian Ministry of Education
and the CoMission handle the church-state relationships that this
endeavor produced? How did post-Soviet teachers respond? How did
the Orthodox Church react? While a few books have described the
changes in Russian public schools, this book provides the first
in-depth case study of moral education in Russia after
communism.
This account of the CoMission -- a group of eighty-three
Christian organizations formed to instruct Russian public
schoolteachers how to teach Christian ethics -- provides unique
insights both into post-communist Russia and Western evangelical
movements. Interviews with more than one hundred people intimately
involved in Russian education, politics, and evangelism make the
narrative's analysis thorough, accessible, and personal. The
author's comprehensive research and first-person experience result
in aninformative, instructive, and compelling book. Anyone with an
interest in Russia, moral education, evangelism, or church-state
issues will find this to be an important study.
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