Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- PART I: RESHAPING RELIGION AFTER THE SOVIET UNION -- 1. REVISING PANDORA'S GIFTS: RELIGIOUS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-SOVIET SOCIETAL FABRIC -- Disintegration and Reintegration in Post-Soviet Eurasia -- Religious Identity: Its Rise, Levels and Functions -- Secular and Religious Elements in National Identity -- Religion, Ethnicity and the Broader Social Context: The Issue of "Manipulation" -- Conclusions -- 2. RELIGION BETWEEN UNIVERSAL AND PARTICULAR: EASTERN EUROPE AFTER 1989 -- Religion vs. Global Culture: To Resist or to Accept? -- Religions in Eastern Europe: Choosing Particularistic Strategies in Negotiating a New Field -- The Russian Orthodox Conundrum of Overture and Compression: Preserving Uniqueness (A Case Study) -- Elaboration: Strategies of Religious Response to New Universalism -- PART II: RELIGION IN RUSSIA: MAIN DISCOURSES AND MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS -- 3. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN RUSSIA -- Introduction: Contemporary Nations and Religious Identity -- Religious Pluralism in the History of pre-1917 Russia and of the Soviet Union -- The Problem of the Nation and of Religious Pluralism in Post-Soviet Russia -- Models of Nationhood and Formulas of Identity in the Public Debates of the 1990s -- A Hierarchical Pluralism of Religions -- Conclusions: In what Sense may Russia be said to be an Orthodox Nation? -- Bibliographic note on newspapers used: -- 4. PUBLIC RELIGION AND THE QUEST FOR NATIONAL IDEOLOGY: RUSSIA'S MEDIA DISCOURSE OF THE 1990s100F -- Introduction -- General Religious Dynamics and Mass Religiosity: The Entropy Thesis -- The Challenge of Pluralism and the Polemics over Legislation -- Religion and State: A "Symphony" Debate. -- Religion and the National Idea -- Conclusion: Public Religion in the Framework of Russian Ideocratic Tradition.

Abbreviated titles of Russian journals and newspapers: -- 5. THE SEARCH FOR PRIVACY AND THE RETURN OF A GREAT NARRATIVE: RELIGION IN A POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETY -- The Secular/Religious Divide -- The Real Impact of Religion: A Semiotic Religiosity? -- In Search of Privacy and the Self -- Religious Feelings and Religious Presence at the Public Square -- Conclusions: Two Overlapping Patterns -- PART III: RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY AND THE CHALLENGES OF LATE MODERNITY -- 6. THE SOCIAL VISION OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY: BALANCING BETWEEN IDENTITY AND RELEVANCE -- 7. BREAKTHROUGH TO MODERNITY, APOLOGIA FOR TRADITIONALISM: THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX VIEW ON SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 8. LIBERAL INDIVIDUAL AND CHRISTIAN CULTURE: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX TEACHING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOCIAL THEORY PERSPECTIVE -- 9. INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY -- 10. REFORM AND REVIVAL IN MOSCOW ORTHODOX COMMUNITIES: TWO TYPES OF RELIGIOUS MODERNITY -- PART IV: EASTERN CHRISTIANITY AND RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE -- 11. EASTERN CHRISTIANITIES TODAY: EXPLORING MAJOR TRENDS -- 12. EASTERN ORTHODOXY IN A GLOBAL AGE -- 13. GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY DISCOURSE IN RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY -- 14. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN EUROPE: SOFT OTHER WITH QUADRUPLE IDENTITY -- Bibliography.