List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2023. Vol 46
Reconstruction of the Space of Beliefs and Reproduction
of Traditional Culture Against the Background
of Social Transformations in Russia:
On the Example of the Construction of an Orthodox Church
in the Village Central Chernozem Region
Author(s)
Ma Qiang
Abstract
Using the ethnographic method of anthropology, this article presents the characteristics of
social transformations in Russia based on field research data in a separate village of the Central
Chernozem region of Russia. In the course of social transformations since the 1980s, there has been a
revival of religious beliefs and traditional culture in Russia, which is manifested in the reconstruction
and construction of Orthodox churches. In the villages of the Chernozem region, the process of recreating the Orthodox Church began. Behind the reconstruction of this space of beliefs and the reproduction of traditional culture is the regulation of state/society relations and official/popular relations
in a transitional society, the establishment of social order and the realization of social unity, and,
consequently, the choice of the way to create and develop a system of state and national identity.
About the Authors
Ma Qiang,
Doctor of Sociology, Leading Researcher,
Researcher Deputy Secretary General
of the Center for Russian Studies,
Institute for the Study of Russian, Eastern
European and Central Asian Studies at the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS),
3, Zhang Zi Zhou Lu Street, Beijing, 100007,
China,
e-mail: maqiang@cass.org.cn
For citation
Ma Qiang. Reconstruction of the Space of Beliefs and Reproduction of Traditional Culture Against the Background
of Social Transformations in Russia: On the Example of the Construction of an Orthodox Church in the Village Central Chernozem Region. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2023, vol. 46, pp. 66-79.
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2023.46.66 (in Russian)
Keywords
social transformation, space of beliefs, reconstruction of the church, cultural reproduction.
UDC
316.74:2(47)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2023.46.66
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