Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost: Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative

by Rachel L. Schroeder and Vyacheslav Karpov

In Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost, Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder demonstrate how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion and why, in contrast, religious pluralism and tolerance have solidified in Ukraine. Offering a richly documented history of cultural and political struggles that surrounded desecularization--the resurgence of religion's societal role--from the end of the USSR to the Russo-Ukrainian war,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978822235
• ISBN13: 9781978822238
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Grade Range: Grade 11