Open AccessReligious Dissidence» as a Phenomenon of Spiritual Revival in the USSR in the 60-80s of the XX century
Author(s) -
Dmitriy I. Sazonov
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-1-137-141
Subject(s) - intelligentsia , phenomenon , ideology , atheism , religious studies , state (computer science) , feeling , political science , sociology , philosophy , law , politics , epistemology , algorithm , computer science
Analyzes such a phenomenon of the 60-80s of the XX century as «religious dissidence». Intelligentsia, which in the 60s began to discover Russian culture, became the right environment, where dissidence came into being. Through spiritual quest educated people came to Church, found God, and could not reconcile with the pressure of state that declared atheism and the struggle against religion its ideological platform which was expressed in the form of the closure of churches, the prohibition of free expression of religious feelings, suppression of the rights and freedoms of the individual etc