What is it about?
It addresses alternative religiosities in the communist regime countries to 1990 and introduces the articles of the topical issue “Alternative Religiosities in the Soviet Union and the Communist East-Central Europe: Formations, Resistances and Manifestations”. The circumstances for the existence of socio-cultural alternatives and religious communities in times of Soviet regime were specific, as most religious and spiritual activities existed here when atheism was the officially established ideology. Due to such controlling Soviet approach, alternative religiosities were mostly active underground and could remain only if expressed clandestinely.
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Why is it important?
The articles published in this issue of "Open Theology" initiate a discussion on formations, resistances and manifestations of alternative religiosities within various time periods in the communist regime countries.
Perspectives
Until now, the research on alternative religiosities during the Soviet period has been more of a sporadic than a thorough and proper analysis of this phenomena and its many aspects. Nevertheless, we might expect such a topic to receive more of a scholarly attention as researchers are increasing their interest and discussion of the topic.
Dr. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson
Vilnius University
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This page is a summary of: Editorial for the Topical Issue “Alternative Religiosities in the Soviet Union and the Communist East-Central Europe: Formations, Resistances and Manifestations”, Open Theology, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/opth-2017-0052.
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