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Religion and Society in the Caucasus: Forms of Interaction and Modern Dynamics
[Религия И Общество На Кавказе: Формы Взаимодействия И Современная Динамика]

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  • Agadzhanyan, Alexander (Агаджанян, Александр)

    (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA))

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the growth of religiosity was evident in all three republics of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia); This growth was part of not only the general post-Soviet phenomenon, but also part of a broader trend of desecularization. People in all three republics perceive this growth as a "return" of their original ethnic and cultural identities. However, the growth of religious sentiments and the public role of religions can be interpreted as not only "return", but as a new "invention", at least "reformatting" religion by various actors, from ordinary "religious entrepreneurs" (religious entrepreneurs) to political Elites and governments. In any case, religious meanings and references, closely linked to ethnic ones, have become an inevitable component of public debate, electoral politics, mass mobilization, and individual identities

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  • Agadzhanyan, Alexander (Агаджанян, Александр), 2017. "Religion and Society in the Caucasus: Forms of Interaction and Modern Dynamics [Религия И Общество На Кавказе: Формы Взаимодействия И Современная Динамика]," Working Papers 061715, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
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    1. Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, 2016. "Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(2), pages 358-359, February.
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