Books by Sonja Luehrmann
"Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits an... more "Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia’s Volga region, Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religious practice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies of atheist propaganda is a widespread didactic orientation among the population and a faith in standardized programs of personal transformation as solutions to wider social problems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism and Islam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a time when the secularist modernization projects of the 20th century are widely perceived to have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and shared histories of religious and atheist mobilizations.
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220 pages | 20 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2008
Sonja Luehrmann’s volume examines Alutiiq history wit... more 220 pages | 20 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2008
Sonja Luehrmann’s volume examines Alutiiq history within the larger context of Russian and American expansionism. The author uses source material in both English and Russian in order to create a work focused on the intersection of the two colonial perspectives—throwing light on our understanding of the differences in the way each society incorporated the Alutiiq community, both as a labor force and a social entity. In a series of map essays, Luehrmann examines the changing patterns of settlement and demography among the Alutiiq as the population responded to the conditions they encountered: economic exploitation, new cultural influences, intermarriage, disease, and the eruption of Novarupta. The addition of Russian source material fills an important blank in this unique history and makes Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule a major resource for anyone working on Alutiiq history or the region’s history in the Russian colonial period.
Papers by Sonja Luehrmann
Published in: The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society,
eds. Sallie Han, Trac... more Published in: The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society,
eds. Sallie Han, Tracy Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott. New York: Berghahn, 2018
Published in: Catherine Wanner, editor, State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and ... more Published in: Catherine Wanner, editor, State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center/Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 272-301
HAU 7(1), 2017: 163-184
Part of the special section "Unbundling Sincerity", edited by Niloofar H... more HAU 7(1), 2017: 163-184
Part of the special section "Unbundling Sincerity", edited by Niloofar Haeri.
Available in Open Access through the link below.
From Sociology of Atheism (Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 7), edited by Roberto Cipri... more From Sociology of Atheism (Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 7), edited by Roberto Cipriani and Franco Garelli
From "A Fragmented Landscape Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe," edited by Silvia ... more From "A Fragmented Landscape Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe," edited by Silvia de Zordo, Joanna Mishtal and Lorena Anton. Berghahn Books, 2017
Journal of Religious and Political Practice
Atheist Secularism and its Discontents, 2015
History of Religions, 2013
Государство Религия Церковь № 3-4 (30), 2012, 2012
Cultural Anthropology, Jan 1, 2011
In supposedly postideological times, late Soviet propaganda seems to epitomize the futile practic... more In supposedly postideological times, late Soviet propaganda seems to epitomize the futile practices of a moribund regime. Instead, the material practices of ideological transmission in the 1960s and 1970s Soviet Union urge us to reconsider how ideas gain mobilizing force in a variety of political settings. This article looks at the use of handmade artifacts and personalized performances in Soviet cultural work to argue that personal reproduction is a crucial mediating factor between counterintuitive, utopian ideas and lived experience. As comparisons between the Soviet case and post-Soviet movements show, semiotic slippages that take documented activity as evidence of broader social dynamism remain key to the sense of agency of mobilizing networks.
Europe-Asia Studies, Jan 1, 2004
Another acquaintance, the 20‐year‐old son of one of my colleagues, showed me photographs taken on... more Another acquaintance, the 20‐year‐old son of one of my colleagues, showed me photographs taken on a summer trip to the US, which included several pictures of suburban couples in their kitchens or in front of their cars. After working at a summer camp, he had been able to ...
Slavic Review, Jan 1, 2005
... Svetlana G. Fedorova, Russkoe naselenie Aliaski i Kalifornii: Konets XVIII veka-1867 g. (Mos-... more ... Svetlana G. Fedorova, Russkoe naselenie Aliaski i Kalifornii: Konets XVIII veka-1867 g. (Mos-cow, 1971), 248; Iurii F. Lisianskii, Puteshestvie vokrugsveta na korable "Neva " v ... Dina R. Spechler, Permitted Dissent in the USSR: Novy mir and the Soviet Regime (New York, 1982). ...
Religion, State &# 38; Society, Jan 1, 2005
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Books by Sonja Luehrmann
For a review see:
http://readingreligion.org/books/praying-senses
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Sonja Luehrmann’s volume examines Alutiiq history within the larger context of Russian and American expansionism. The author uses source material in both English and Russian in order to create a work focused on the intersection of the two colonial perspectives—throwing light on our understanding of the differences in the way each society incorporated the Alutiiq community, both as a labor force and a social entity. In a series of map essays, Luehrmann examines the changing patterns of settlement and demography among the Alutiiq as the population responded to the conditions they encountered: economic exploitation, new cultural influences, intermarriage, disease, and the eruption of Novarupta. The addition of Russian source material fills an important blank in this unique history and makes Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule a major resource for anyone working on Alutiiq history or the region’s history in the Russian colonial period.
Papers by Sonja Luehrmann
eds. Sallie Han, Tracy Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott. New York: Berghahn, 2018
Part of the special section "Unbundling Sincerity", edited by Niloofar Haeri.
Available in Open Access through the link below.
Media appearance by Sonja Luehrmann
For a review see:
http://readingreligion.org/books/praying-senses
"
Sonja Luehrmann’s volume examines Alutiiq history within the larger context of Russian and American expansionism. The author uses source material in both English and Russian in order to create a work focused on the intersection of the two colonial perspectives—throwing light on our understanding of the differences in the way each society incorporated the Alutiiq community, both as a labor force and a social entity. In a series of map essays, Luehrmann examines the changing patterns of settlement and demography among the Alutiiq as the population responded to the conditions they encountered: economic exploitation, new cultural influences, intermarriage, disease, and the eruption of Novarupta. The addition of Russian source material fills an important blank in this unique history and makes Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule a major resource for anyone working on Alutiiq history or the region’s history in the Russian colonial period.
eds. Sallie Han, Tracy Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott. New York: Berghahn, 2018
Part of the special section "Unbundling Sincerity", edited by Niloofar Haeri.
Available in Open Access through the link below.