Xe development of the sociology of religion in the Middle Volga region: 1960–1980s
https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2022-28-1-69-87
Abstract
The text is a part of the project for the historical reconstruction of the Soviet regional sociology of religion in the late Soviet Middle Volga region. The process of the development of the discipline is studied primarily from the point of view of the interaction of the state-party apparatus and various groups of the scientific community. This approach is dominant in the study of the revival of sociology in the USSR. The weak side of the issue is its historiography that remains the problem at the regional level. The research is based mainly on the set of sociological data, on documents discovered by the author in historical archives, on the works of domestic and foreign researchers, and author’s expert interview. The author’s point of view is that, first of all, the development of the regional sociology of religion was influenced by the state-party order created by the need for scientific support of the Soviet atheistic campaigns. There was also a significant public demand for the services of the sociology of religion. The flip side of the CPSU’s enthusiasm for sociology turned out to be ideological diktat over scientific activity. The ideological and corporate interests of various groups engaged in the ideological service of party politics hindered the institutionalization in the region of both sociological science in general and the sociology of religion as its particular discipline. The article describes various barriers to the institutionalization of regional sociological science at the union, regional and intra-university levels. Political fluctuations have negatively affected the development of discipline. Since the early 1970s in most republics and regions of the Middle Volga region, it is going through a stagnation period.
About the Author
M. V. Kildeyev
Republican Center for Youth, Innovative and Preventive Programs
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Sociology, Sociologist of Analytical Department
Adoratskogo str., 36, Kazan, Russian Federation, 420137
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Kildeyev M.V. Xe development of the sociology of religion in the Middle Volga region: 1960–1980s. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science. 2022;28(1):69-87. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2022-28-1-69-87
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