Religious ritual contested: anti-religious activities and women’s ritual practice in rural Soviet Karelia

• Published in: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
• Main Author: Keinänen, Marja-Liisa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Donner Institute 2003
• Subjects: Ritual; Communism > Soviet Union; Soviet Union > History; Karelia (Russia); Orthodox Eastern Church; Russian; Pomestnyĭ sobor; Rites and ceremonies; Gender; Women; Irreligion; Secularism; State and religion; Bourgeois; karelia*
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67285; https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67285

After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to establish a new atheistic order which would eradicate from the public consciousness all vestiges of "religious prejudices", which were regarded as a residue from the imperial era and an instrument used to exploit the masses. Even thoug...