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Nurturing the Seeds of Social Communities (Book Review on ZABAYEV, Ye. MELKUMYAN, D. ORESHINA et al.(Eds.). The Invisible Church. Social Effects of the Parish Community in Russian Orthodoxy. Moscow: St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University, 2015)
Social Sciences. 2016. Vol. 47. No. 1. P. 147-153.
In 2015 the publishing house of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanities University (PSTGU) brought out a collection of articles entitled The Invisible Church. Social Effects of the Parish Community in Russian Orthodoxy. This review looks at the book from the standpoint of an engaged reader whose research interests are outside sociology of religion. It considers the articles in each section one by one and articulates the questions that arise when reading them.
Research target:
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Priority areas:
sociology
Language:
English
Keywords: sociology of religion
Bogachev M., Sorvin K., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2020 № 3 (38) С. 331-361
The article provides a study of the relationship between politics and religion in contemporary Russia. The authors analyze the materials of the survey “ Socio-Political Preferences of Russian Society” (number of people identifying themselves as Orthodox believers N=2,735), which showed that at least 21.1% of the sample make decisions concerning their electoral choices under direct ...
Added: October 23, 2020
Vasilyev L. S., Общественные науки и современность 2006 № 1 С. 83-90
В попытках понять, почему, спустя почти полторы тысячи лет после появления ислама, стало возможным возникновение столь мощного, энергичного, жесткого агрессивного, использующего террор движения, как современный исламизм, автор статьи в осторополемичной форме обращается к кораническим основам этого феномена. Его вывод пессимистичен. Идеология современного мусульманского радикализма – это не искажение, а доскональное следование фундаментальным заповедям Корана. Что, ...
Added: May 10, 2013
Дюркгейм Э., Социологическое обозрение 2018 Т. 17 № 2 С. 122-154
In 2018, Elementary Forms Press will be releasing the Russian translation of Emile Durkheim’s seminal oeuvre Elementary Forms of Religious Life (originally published in 1912). In his Conclusion, Durkheim revisits the key epistemological questions raised at the beginning of the book. He summarizes his findings obtained as a result of the analysis of ethnographical descriptions ...
Added: July 2, 2018
Pugina E., Вестник Нижегородского университета им. Н.И. Лобачевского. Серия: Социальные науки 2011 № 4 С. 48-52
The research applied for research abilities of critical discourse analysis for new religious movements’ analysis. A long tradition of religion research in social sciences had a lot of theoretical issues. In this paper we show how theory is used for empirical survey. ...
Added: December 19, 2012
Medvedeva K. S., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2016 Т. XIX № 1 (84) С. 59-72
The article focuses on how the method of participant observation can be applied in such an understudied and hard-to-access field as monastic communities. Monastic studies generate interest in academic circles but rarely become subjects of methodological reflection. The article fills the gap and analyzes the specifics of this method, its strengths and limitations as applied ...
Added: May 13, 2016
Medvedeva K. S., Социологическое обозрение 2015 Т. 14 № 3 С. 153-160
The review analyses the international conference “Christian Monasticism from East to West: Monastic Traditions and Modernity in Europe”, organized in June 2015 by sociologists and theologians from the Universities of Graz (Austria), Turin (Italy), and Bucharest (Romania). The conference initiated a sociological reflection of different monastic traditions, and the role of monasteries in terms of ...
Added: October 4, 2015
Medvedeva K. S., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2016 Т. 1 № 34 С. 404-410
Review of the book:
Jonveaux, Isabelle, Palmisano, Stefania and Pace, Enzo (eds) (2014) Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Vol. 5: Sociology and Monasticism: Between Innovation and Tradition. Leiden, Boston: Brill. — 322 p. ...
Added: April 18, 2016
Bogachev M., State, Religion and Church 2017 Vol. 4 (1) P. 112-125
Review of Religious and Social Life in the Russian Regions, Vol. 1, 2. ...
Added: July 3, 2017
Bogachev M., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2016 № 4 С. 142-157
Article is devoted to studying of relationship between religion and politics. The author uses a conceptual framework of the theory of social cleavages and focuses attention on connection between religious groups and their party preferences. Three types of religious cleavages are allocated in work on the basis of the analysis of foreign researches: clerical-secular, inter-confessional, ...
Added: December 15, 2016
Kurakin D., Религиоведческие исследования 2019 Т. 19 № 1 С. 102-110
An interview about translations of classics texts in the social sciences, dedicated to the Russian translation of Emile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life". ...
Added: December 23, 2019
Bogachev M., Власть 2017 № 8 С. 115-121
Article is devoted to relationship of ROC and Russian state. The author clarifies some thesis about role of orthodox believers in political process in modern Russia and reveals the results of research is devoted to party preferences of orthodox believers. The scientist claims that "devout" believers don't vote for “United Russia” while "nominal" believers, on ...
Added: August 24, 2017
Oreshina D., Забаев И. В., Пруцкова Е. В., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2014 Т. 1 № 32 С. 40-66
The article examines the influence of religion on social capital formation in Russia. The study suggests that active involvement of the parishes in the organization of social work, based on the principles of delegation of power and authority from priests to the laity, increases the parish social networks, attaching more lay people to it, including ...
Added: June 4, 2014
Medvedeva K. S., Russian Sociological Review 2015 Vol. 14 No. 2 P. 70-81
In this article, I examine the specifics of a workspace in one of the Christian Orthodox organizations in Russia. The sisterhood which I analyze represents the interlacement of religious and economic discourses in the workplace. I discuss the “commodification” of piety which is seen as a professional competency in the labour relations among Orthodox Christians. ...
Added: June 14, 2015
Bogachev M., Научный результат. Серия: Социология и управление 2015 Т. 1 № 3 (5) С. 5-23
The article is devoted to the analysis of the correlation between degree of attachment to the church (being churched) and electoral preferences of orthodox believers. The author reveals transformation the form of correlation degree of attachment to the church (being churched) and electoral preferences of orthodox believers which has shape of parabola on data the ...
Added: December 13, 2015
Medvedeva K. S., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2015 № 5 С. 178-183
The article introduces the basic theses of the annual conference organized by the British Sociological Association (BSA) Sociology of Religion Study Group named «Foundations and Futures» in 2015. It analyzes the changes in the academic community of British sociologists of religion for the past forty years. In particular, it discusses the structure of the research ...
Added: November 2, 2015
Bogachev M., Власть 2016 № 5 С. 146-150
Article was devoted to studying of political preferences of orthodox believers in Russia during the period from 1991 to 2011. Statistical data and the results of sociological polls which published in the Russian periodical press are analyzed in work. The author make to a conclusion that electoral preferences of a significant part of orthodox believers ...
Added: May 24, 2016
Medvedeva K. S., Социологический журнал 2015 Т. 21 № 3 С. 45-62
The article discusses the public opinion about Christian Orthodox monasteries and monasticism in contemporary Russia. The analysis is based on the results of the public opinion polls conducted in 2010–2015 by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM). Materials of the poll by Irina Aster (2009) and multimedia contest ―Russia 10‖ (2013) were also used ...
Added: October 7, 2015
Bogachev M., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2016 № 4 С. 251-265
Review on:
Религиозно-общественная жизнь российских регионов. Т. I. / Науч. ред. С. Филатов. М.: Летний сад, 2014. — 620 с. Религиозно-общественная жизнь российских регионов. Т. II. / Науч. ред. С. Филатов. М.; СПб.: Летний сад, 2016. — 512 с. ...
Added: January 4, 2017
Medvedeva K. S., Социологическое обозрение 2016 Т. 15 № 1 С. 134-140
This review examines the key issues of the international conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) held in August 2015 in Prague (Czech Republic). It gives an outline of the plenary speech by A. Hochschild at the opening of the conference dedicated to the connection between emotions and political beliefs. The review focuses on the ...
Added: April 6, 2016
Tikhonova N. E., Каравай А. В., Социологические исследования 2018 № 5 С. 84-98
The article analyzes dynamics of some indicators of the human capital of Russians in the context of changes in the relations between employees and employers. It is shown that the general vector of these changes is the shift of balance of power between them in favor of employers, which has led to non-compliance with the ...
Added: August 29, 2018
Varshaver E., Рочева А. Л., Андреева А. С. et al., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2019 № 6(154) С. 479-504
The article presents the results of a comparative study devoted to the settlement of ethnic migrants and their determinants in the global cities, such as Paris, Singapore, Sydney, and Moscow. The article is based on the relevant literature and field studies conducted in these cities including interviews with experts in the urban studies and migrant ...
Added: June 7, 2021
СПб. : Алетейя, 2012
Коллективная монография написана по материалам социологического качественного исследования женщин, имеющих опыт заключения в исправительных учреждениях. Основные темы, которые раскрываются в книге, - это формальная и неформальные структуры власти, гендерные аспекты быта и повседневности в российских женских колониях, а также специфика построения биографических нарративов осужденных женщин. Кроме того, в монографии представлены голоса самих женщин в форме ...
Added: May 14, 2012
Kuchmaeva O., Население и экономика 2018 Т. 2 № 4 С. 47-84
Статья посвящена анализу масштабов и видов социальной активности пожилых россиян. Актуальность данной проблемы обусловлена масштабами демографического старения, ставшего уже предметом целенаправленной социальной политики в России и странах мира. Реализуя Международный план действий по проблемам старения, в частности, в рамках Стратегии действий в интересах граждан старшего поколения в Российской
Федерации до 2025 г., важно понимать, насколько сейчас ...
Added: October 30, 2019
Бердышева Е. С., Экономическая социология 2014 Т. 15 № 5 С. 9-44
The act of purchase and sale cannot be realized without product quality evaluation and price reasonableness analysis. In this respect, the processes of definition, stabilization and institutionalization of categories, revealing the contents of goods become of key importance in the framework of contemporary markets. This article reconstructs categories which operationalize the content and quality of ...
Added: March 2, 2015