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<p>This study deals with the emergence of organised forms of resistance to the Bolshevik policies of secularisation, and the role that documents introduced into the religious landscape in the 1920s by the Soviet regime played in it. Integral to the Bolshevik campaign of eliminating religions, the mandatory registration of religious communities transposed into the religious landscape the organisational forms and techniques of the production of documents characteristic of bureaucracy, which enhanced the capability of believers to pose an organised resistance to antireligious policies. This paper measures the consequence of these documents and bureaucratic practices, their role in the consolidation of religious organisations and the creation of antagonism between parishioners and state officials. My study is centred on the case of the Orthodox Church of our Lady of Kazan from Cioburciu (Moldavian Region of Soviet Ukraine), the construction of which was at the heart of the confrontation of Orthodox believers from this settlement with the Soviet authorities.</p>
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This study deals with the emergence of organised forms of resistance to the Bolshevik policies of secularisation, and the role that documents introduced into the religious landscape in the 1920s by the Soviet regime played in it. Integral to the Bolshevik campaign of eliminating religions, the mandatory registration of religious communities transposed into the religious landscape the organisational forms and techniques of the production of documents characteristic of bureaucracy, which enhanced the capability of believers to pose an organised resistance to antireligious policies. This paper measures the consequence of these documents and bureaucratic practices, their role in the consolidation of religious organisations and the creation of antagonism between parishioners and state officials. My study is centred on the case of the Orthodox Church of our Lady of Kazan from Cioburciu (Moldavian Region of Soviet Ukraine), the construction of which was at the heart of the confrontation of Orthodox believers from this settlement with the Soviet authorities.

Organising Religious Resistance: Contingent Procedures, Material Religion and early Soviet Repression against Religion

PhD candidate at the Department of Study of Religions of University College Cork

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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This study deals with the emergence of organised forms of resistance to the Bolshevik policies of secularisation, and the role that documents introduced into...

Organising Religious Resistance: Contingent Procedures, Material Religion and early Soviet Repression against Religion

Published Online: Nov 10, 2022

Page range: 197 - 217

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2022-0102

Keywords
Soviet antireligious policy, Society and Technology Studies, Religious organisations, Orthodox Christianity, Sacred Buildings, Secularisation, Liquidation Commissions

© 2022 Dumitru Lisnic, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Organising Religious Resistance: Contingent Procedures, Material Religion and early Soviet Repression against Religion

Published Online: Nov 10, 2022

Page range: 197 - 217

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2022-0102

KeywordsSoviet antireligious policy, Society and Technology Studies, Religious organisations, Orthodox Christianity, Sacred Buildings, Secularisation, Liquidation Commissions

© 2022 Dumitru Lisnic, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Soviet antireligious policy, Society and Technology Studies, Religious organisations, Orthodox Christianity, Sacred Buildings, Secularisation, Liquidation Commissions