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Call for Papers
The
Religious Underground in the USSR
November
18 to 19, 2011
Chernigov, Ukraine
The
Shevchenko University of Chernigov, with the participation of members of the
Keston Institute
Dear
Colleagues:
We
invite you to participate in Ukraine’s first international convention
examining «The Religious Underground in the USSR», organized by a group of
Ukrainian educational and cultural organizations under the leadership of the
Shevchenko University of Chernigov. The conference will be held in Chernigov,
Ukraine, on the 18th and 19th of November 2011. The
organizing committee is being advised by members of the Keston Institute
(Oxford, U.K.).
Although
religious resistance to the totalitarian regime in the USSR has been studied
in the West for over fifty years, it lacks attention of a similar scope from
native scholars. Such attention is critically important now, because of the
dangerous trend in Russian and Ukrainian scholarship that many Western
scholars have noted, of rewriting recent Russian and Ukrainian history to
reflect the politics and concerns of current regimes. This is especially true
in matters concerning the Church.
The
international convention « The Religious Underground in the USSR” aims
to inspire dialogue between Western and Eastern students of this phenomenon,
and to attract the attention of younger scholars. Several widely known
scholars in the field have already offered to present papers at the convention,
including Canon Michael Bourdeaux, Xenia Dennen, Vladimir Moss, Lev Regelson,
Mikhail Shkarovskii, Irina Osipova, Lydia Sikorskaia, and Archpriest Aleksei
Lebedev.
An
exhibit presenting the history and achievements of the Keston Institute is
planned for the convention. Copies of items from the Keston Archive located at
the Baylor University (Texas, USA) will be displayed, including unique
documents and photographs witnessing the history of religious persecution in
the USSR. The conference program also includes excursions around the city of
Chernigov, led by the members of the National Association “Historical
Chernigov.”
We
invite papers describing underground religious movements and activity in the
USSR from various perspectives: historical, political, theological, and
sociological. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the
conference proceedings which will be distributed by the organizing committee
to Western and Russian and Ukrainian academic libraries.
Deadline:
September 30, 2011
Contact:
Prof.
Svetlana Shumilo veraigizn@rumbler.ru
or
Sister Tatiana sistertatianaspektor@gmail.com
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