Religious Freedom in the Russian Federation and the Jehovah's Witnesses
Anti-extremism legislation has existed in Russia for over a decade, but only recently has it been used to discriminate against, persecute, and eventually "liquidate" the Jehovah's Witnesses. The article reconstructs the history of anti-minority legislation in Russia, from the Soviet U...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2021]
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 82-103 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Russia
/ Religious freedom
/ Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Jehovah's Witnesses
/ Persecution
/ History 1917-2020
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| Further subjects: | B
Jehovah's Witnesses
B Religious Freedom in Russia B Religion in the Russian Federation B "Anti-Extremism" Laws in Russia B Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia |
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| Summary: | Anti-extremism legislation has existed in Russia for over a decade, but only recently has it been used to discriminate against, persecute, and eventually "liquidate" the Jehovah's Witnesses. The article reconstructs the history of anti-minority legislation in Russia, from the Soviet Union to the liberal post-Soviet reforms of the 1990s and the retrenchment in the Putin era. Jehovah's Witnesses have been the victims of a notion of the Russian nation granting a de facto monopoly to the Russian Orthodox Church, and regarding religious minorities, particularly those headquartered in the West and proselytizing among Orthodox believers, as a threat to national integrity. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2021.5.1.5 |