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ISSN 2311 – 3448 and RELIGION STATE, CHURCH ation R STATE, dminist a RELIGION ublic P and ARTICLES and Yury Khalturin. Esotericism and the Mapping the Worldview of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Imaginaire at the Frontiers of Science: Century Russian Freemasonry: Toward The Quest for Universal Unity at the Turn conomy CHURCH a Conceptualization e of the Twentieth Century (Review Article) Ekateryna Zorya. Magic in the Post-Soviet Russian Rodnoverie: Neo-Paganism and ational Markers n Nationalism in Today’s Russia. (Russkoe rodnoverie: Neoiazichestvo i natsionalizm of Alexey Glushaev. “Without Preachers, in a Corner of the Barracks”: Protestant v sovremennoi Rossii). Moscow: “Barracks Congregations” in the Perm-Kama Region in the Second Half of cademy a the 1940s through the Early 1960s Orthodox Galina Zelenina. “One’s Entire Life among Christianity and the Institutions of Power Books”: Soviet Jewry on the Path from and Civil Society in Russia. (Pravoslavie, instituty vlasti i grazhdanskogo esidential R LECTURE P Bernice Martin. Religion, Secularity and Cultural Memory in Brazil ussian R R ussian PR esidential a cademy of n ational e conomy and Public a dministR ation RELIGION CHURCH Vol. 1 Vol. STATE, and Moscow, 2014 Moscow, ISSN (2) 2311 2014 – 3448 EDITORS Dmitry Uzlaner (editor-in-chief ), Christopher Stroop (editor), Alexander Agadjanian, Alexander Kyrlezhev DESIGN Sergey Zinoviev, Ekaterina Trushina LAYOUT Anastasia Akimova State, Religion and Church is an academic peer- reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary scholarly study of religion. Published twice yearly under the aegis of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. EDITORIAL BOARD Alexey Beglov (Russia), Mirko Blagojević (Serbia), Thomas Bremer (Germany), Grace Davie (UK), Vyacheslav Karpov (USA), Vladimir Malyavin (China), Brian Horowitz (USA), Vasilios Makrides (Germany), Bernice Martin (UK), David Martin (UK), Alexander Panchenko (Russia), Randall A. Poole (USA), Kathy Rousselet (France), Kristina Stoeckl (Austria), Marianna Shachnovich (Russia), Mikhail Smirnov (Russia), Roman Svetlov (Russia), Olga Vasil’eva (Russia), Alexander Verkhovsky (Russia), Paul Werth (USA), Alexey Yudin (Russia). Address: State, Religion and Church Editorial Ofce. Institute of Public Administration and Management. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Prospekt Vernadskogo 84. Building 8, Room 2023. 119606 Moscow, Russia. Web-site: www.srch.ranepa.ru E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2014 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Editor. The opinions of the authors expressed in this journal are their own and do not necessarily coincide with those of the editorial staf. Table of Contents FROM THE EDITORS . 4 Articles YURY KHALTURIN. Esotericism and the Worldview of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian Freemasonry: Toward a Conceptualization . 7 KATERYNA ZORYA. Magic in the Post-Soviet Space: Definitions, Sources, Verbal Markers . 29 ALEXEY GLUSHAEV. “Without Preachers, in a Corner of the Barracks”: Protestant “Barracks Congregations” in the Perm-Kama Region in the Second Half of the 1940s through the Early 1960s . 60 GALINA ZELENINA. “One’s Entire Life among Books”: Soviet Jewry on the Path from Tanakh to Library . 86 Lecture BERNICE MARTIN. Religion, Secularity and Cultural Memory in Brazil . .112 Book Reviews VLADISLAV RAZDYAKONOV. Mapping the Imaginaire at the Frontiers of Science: The Quest for Universal Unity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Review Article). .135 Viktor Shnirel’man (2012). Russian Rodnoverie: Neo-Paganism and Nationalism in Today’s Russia. (Russkoe rodnoverie: Neoiazichestvo i natsionalizm v sovremennoi Rossii). Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Bibleiskogo-Bogoslovskogo instituta (in Russian). — 302 pages . .146 Alexey Sitnikov (2012). Orthodox Christianity and the Institutions of Power and Civil Society in Russia. (Pravoslavie, instituty vlasti i grazhdanskogo obshchestva v Rossii). St. Petersburg: Aleteiia (in Russian). — 248 pages . .151 Reference Information Authors . .157 VOL. 1(2) · 2014 3 From the Editors Dear Reader, LONG with our parent journal, Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom (GRTs), we at State, Religion and AChurch (SRC) pride ourselves on publishing some of the best work in religious studies produced in Russia and the post-Soviet space generally. Our work in this area reflects two broad tendencies marking post-Soviet scholarship. The first is the productive exploration of new paradigms and theoretical approaches; GRTs has been on the cutting edge of this tendency, breaking new ground while ensuring that scholarly rigor is maintained in the process. The second is the creation of spaces for direct, open exchanges and collaborative eforts between scholars from the West, on the one hand, and scholars from Russia and other post-Soviet republics on the other. Here, too, the editorial staf of both journals have helped to lead the way. We launched the English-language journal early this year with the goal of providing precisely such an institutional space, and in this second issue we continue to pursue our mission by publishing translations from our parent journal and articles revised from Russian originals; translations of book reviews and review articles that provide those who do not read Russian with a window into discussions taking place within religious studies in Russia; and original material. In this time of heightened geopolitical tension, we believe that fostering scholarly exchange and collaboration between Russians and non- Russians is all the more important. The translated articles published in this issue can be divided roughly into two categories: 1) esotericism in Russian-speaking contexts, and 2) the lived experience of religious communities in the Soviet Union. The first category provides a case in point regarding Russian scholarship’s exploration of new paradigms and methods. In 4 © STATE· RELIGION · CHURCH FROM THE EDITORS his article on the worldview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian freemasons, Yury Khalturin relies on techniques of discourse analysis to make the case that this worldview fits into Antoine Faivre’s conception of Western esotericism. In a similar manner, drawing on both anthropological techniques and historicist textual analysis, Kateryna Zorya argues that post-Soviet magic is also a variation of Western esotericism. Both scholars devote considerable space to demonstrating their conclusions through many examples, while both also point toward specificities of the Russian variations of the phenomena under consideration that deserve further study. Meanwhile, the study of the lived experience of religious communities in the Soviet Union is exploding, both within and outside Russia, in conjunction with the broad religious turn in the humanities and social sciences and a natural scholarly interest in assessing the Soviet legacy. Since the Soviet Union represents the most radically secularist regime in history to date, many scholars are currently drawn to examine the impact of anti-religious policies on religious communities; the actually existing relationships between religious believers and state institutions; and the ways these policies, relations and experiences shifted over time within the broader Soviet context. The archives ofer plenty of tantalizing stories to those who go looking for them, and in this issue of SRC we bring you two of them. Both are ambitious in scope, but, being thoroughly grounded in their authors’ previous research and the relevant historiographies, they rise to the occasion as mature scholarly achievements that deserve wide attention. The first is Alexey Glushaev’s study of both ethnic German and ethnic Russian Protestant “barracks congregations” in the Perm-Kama Region from the 1940s through the 1960s, a story intimately connected with deportations, “special settlers,” and the Soviet Union’s particular post-war situation. The second is Galina Zelenina’s investigation of the generational transformations of Jewish life through the entire span of Soviet history, which, drawing on large repositories of oral histories, she examines through the lens of Soviet and post-Soviet Jews’ evolving relationships to books and reading practices. While the research mentioned above is appearing here for the first time in English, this issue of SRC also contains one entirely original contribution: a lecture by leading British sociologist of religion Bernice Martin that lays out an intriguing, provocative, and theoretically nuanced interpretation of the rise of Pentecostalism in Brazil in the context of that country’s power relations and post- V OL.1(2) · 2014 5 FROM THE EDITORS colonial history. The lecture was delivered at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) in Moscow on September 13, 2013, as one event in a larger project called “Religion, Science and Society” put together by the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute of Postgraduate Studies, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation. Another such international collaborative efort has set SRC’s agenda for 2015. RANEPA hosted an international conference from May 14 through 16, 2014, under the auspices of the Center for Russian Studies, and organized by SRC’s editorial staf: “The Varieties of Russian Modernity

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