Candle in the Wind: Religion in the Soviet Union

By Michael Rowe, Eugene B. Shirley Jr., Michael Rowe

Religion has held a unique place in Soviet society: it is the only officially tolerated form of divergent ideology. Successive constitutions since 1917 have guaranteed "freedom to perform religious rites." In this volume, eleven authors survey the history and current situation of religion. They look at the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian bodies Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox and also at Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam. They describe the laws and the government agencies used to repress and persecute religious believers, how various religious bodies have responded to repression, and the prospects for reform under the initiatives of Mikhail Gorbachev.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896331369
• ISBN13: 9780896331365
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"