“I Came not to Bring Peace, but a Sword”: The Politics of Religion after Socialism and the Precariousness of Religious Life in the Russian Arctic

• Main Author: VAGRAMENKO, Tatiana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian; English
• Published: Eastern European Institute of Theology (EEIT) 2018
• Subjects: Evangelical mission; The Russian Arctic; Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the North; Post-Soviet politics of religion; Inter-confessional relations; Religious conflicts; Baptism; Pentecostalism; Евангельское миссионерство; Российская Артика; Коренные народы Сибири и Севера; Постсоветская религиозная политика; Межконфессиональные отношения; Религиозные конфликты; Баптизм; Пятидесятничество; Arctic; Yamal Peninsula; ural mountains; Арктика; Siberia
• Online Access: http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/article/view/126841; https://doi.org/10.29357/issn.2521-179X.2018.20.7

In the post-Soviet period, new opportunities have been created for cross-cultural interaction revealing a global religious marketplace. The Russian Arctic seemed to have become an attractive land for international Protestant missionary activities. Since the mid-1990s, scholars began to register the...