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- catalog abstract ""Inside the disintegrating Soviet Union, Raisa Gibaydulina, a professor of scientific atheism at the Moscow Institute of Atheism, compiles a selection of articles, sermons, manifestos, and other writings by members of banned religious sects. Copies of this classified reference manual, The New Sectarianism, are smuggled to the West, where intellectuals attempt to assess the late-Soviet spiritual movements. A record of Gibaydulina's own spiritual quest is preserved in the notes and letters she writes during the post-Soviet years before her death in April 1997." "Such is the form of Mikhail Epstein's fictional Cries in the New Wilderness, first published in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union and now available in English, in an expanded version. Drawing on his own participation in Moscow's intellectual associations and in expeditions to study popular religious beliefs in southern Russia and Ukraine, Epstein recreates the spiritual experience of an entire Russian generation. His is not a documentary book, however, but a "comedy of ideas," in which he constructs from the voices he hears in the culture around him the bizarre religious and philosophical worldviews of Foodniks and Domesticans, Arkists and Bloodbrothers, Sinnerists and Good-believers, Steppies and Pushkinians." "As a counterpoint to this medley of comic, grotesque, poetic, banal, poignant, and harrowing voices is the voice of the commentator, Professor Gibaydulina, who struggles to maintain her scientific atheism in the face of this startling variety of religious experiences. Gibaydulina's response to the crumbling of the Soviet Union and her quest for a new, creative atheism adds a tragic note to Epstein's polyphonic work."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Novoe sektantstvo. English".
- catalog contributor b12568026.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""As a counterpoint to this medley of comic, grotesque, poetic, banal, poignant, and harrowing voices is the voice of the commentator, Professor Gibaydulina, who struggles to maintain her scientific atheism in the face of this startling variety of religious experiences. Gibaydulina's response to the crumbling of the Soviet Union and her quest for a new, creative atheism adds a tragic note to Epstein's polyphonic work."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Inside the disintegrating Soviet Union, Raisa Gibaydulina, a professor of scientific atheism at the Moscow Institute of Atheism, compiles a selection of articles, sermons, manifestos, and other writings by members of banned religious sects. Copies of this classified reference manual, The New Sectarianism, are smuggled to the West, where intellectuals attempt to assess the late-Soviet spiritual movements. A record of Gibaydulina's own spiritual quest is preserved in the notes and letters she writes during the post-Soviet years before her death in April 1997."".
- catalog description ""Such is the form of Mikhail Epstein's fictional Cries in the New Wilderness, first published in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union and now available in English, in an expanded version. Drawing on his own participation in Moscow's intellectual associations and in expeditions to study popular religious beliefs in southern Russia and Ukraine, Epstein recreates the spiritual experience of an entire Russian generation. His is not a documentary book, however, but a "comedy of ideas," in which he constructs from the voices he hears in the culture around him the bizarre religious and philosophical worldviews of Foodniks and Domesticans, Arkists and Bloodbrothers, Sinnerists and Good-believers, Steppies and Pushkinians."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.".
- catalog description "The New Sectarianism: Title Page of the Spetsizdat Version -- The New Sectarianism as a Problem for Religiology. pt. 1. Everyday Sects. pt. 2. Philistine Sects. pt. 3. Nationalist Sects. pt. 4. Atheist Sects. pt. 5. Doomsday Sects. pt. 6. Literary Sects -- Selected reviews of: The New Sectarianism. Ivan Dedov, "The Dal of Russian Thought" Pierre Daniel, "The First Socialist Philosophy" Gustav Schneider, "From Atheism to Paganism" Robert Cohen, "A Religious Consciousness in Distress" -- Epilogue to The New Sectarianism: Atheism as a Spiritual Vocation: From the Archive of Professor R.O. Gibaydulina. R.O. Gibaydulina and the End of Communism. Atheism as a Spiritual Vocation: Gibaydulina's Papers of the 1990s. Polemics on "Poor Religion."".
- catalog extent "xiv, 236 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Cries in the new wilderness.".
- catalog identifier "0967967546 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0967967554 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cries in the new wilderness.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng rus".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books,".
- catalog relation "Cries in the new wilderness.".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation)".
- catalog subject "891.73/5 21".
- catalog subject "PG3479.7.P74 N6813 2002".
- catalog subject "Religion and culture Russia (Federation) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Sects Russia (Federation) Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The New Sectarianism: Title Page of the Spetsizdat Version -- The New Sectarianism as a Problem for Religiology. pt. 1. Everyday Sects. pt. 2. Philistine Sects. pt. 3. Nationalist Sects. pt. 4. Atheist Sects. pt. 5. Doomsday Sects. pt. 6. Literary Sects -- Selected reviews of: The New Sectarianism. Ivan Dedov, "The Dal of Russian Thought" Pierre Daniel, "The First Socialist Philosophy" Gustav Schneider, "From Atheism to Paganism" Robert Cohen, "A Religious Consciousness in Distress" -- Epilogue to The New Sectarianism: Atheism as a Spiritual Vocation: From the Archive of Professor R.O. Gibaydulina. R.O. Gibaydulina and the End of Communism. Atheism as a Spiritual Vocation: Gibaydulina's Papers of the 1990s. Polemics on "Poor Religion."".
- catalog title "Cries in the new wilderness : from the files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism / Mikhail N. Epstein ; translated and introduced by Eve Adler.".
- catalog title "Novoe sektantstvo. English".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".