Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost

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  • ISBN 9781978822221
  • Weight: 399g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost, Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder demonstrate how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion and why, in contrast, religious pluralism and tolerance have solidified in Ukraine. Offering a richly documented history of cultural and political struggles that surrounded desecularization—the resurgence of religion’s societal role—from the end of the USSR to the Russo-Ukrainian war, they show Russian critics of desecularization adhered to artistic provocations, from axing icons to “punk-prayers” in cathedrals, and how Orthodox activists, in turn, responded by vandalizing controversial exhibits and calling on the state to crush “the enemies of the Church.” Putin’s solidifying tyranny heard their calls and criminalized insults to religious feelings. Meanwhile, Ukraine adhered to its pluralistic legacies. Its churches refused to engage in Russian-style culture wars, sticking instead to forgiveness and forbearance. Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost offers original theoretical and methodological perspectives on desecularization applicable far beyond the cases of Russia and Ukraine.
 
VYACHESLAV KARPOV is a professor of sociology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is the coeditor, with Manfred Svensson, of Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth.

RACHEL L. SCHROEDER is an assistant professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.