2024/2025

Confessions, Churches, Diasporas: Religions and Religiosity in Modern Russia

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: School of Politics and Governance

When: 1, 2 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Contact hours: 50

Course Syllabus

Abstract

“Confessions, Churches, Diasporas: Religions and Religiosity in Modern Russia” is a survey course with a conceptual and problem-focused approach. It is based on current Russian and international Religious Studies research. This course allows students to look at the religious map of modern Russia from an interdisciplinary perspective, taking into account insights from geography, history, sociology and philosophy of religion, as well as from contemporary anthropological studies. The course examines religiosity in Russia from a historical angle and explores its manifestations in current Russian socio-political life. It foregrounds questions regarding experience in the religious sphere, and of religious identity and its significance in the contemporary lives of people in Russia.