About the Editors and Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction
I. Russia
2. The Russian Orthodox Church as an Empire-Saving Institution
3. The Russian Orthodox Church in the Postcommunist CIS
4. Civil Society and Religion in Traditional Political Culture: The Case of Russia
5. The Church and Politics in Contemporary Russia
6. Glasnost and the Gospel: The Emergence of Religious Pluralism
II. The Western Newly Independent States
7. Politics and Religion in Ukraine: The Orthodox and the Greek Catholics
8. Politics and Religion in Ukraine: In Search of a New Pluralistic Dimension
9. The Kiev Patriarchate and the State
10. The Baltic Churches and the Democratization Process
III. The Southern Newly Independent States
11. Religion and Politics in the Caucasus
12. Islam as Faith
Politics
and Bogeyman in Tajikistan
13. Islam and the Political Culture ofScientific Atheism in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Future Predicaments
14. Independent Uzbekistan: A Muslim Community in Development
Appendix: Project Participants
Index
